I'm not advocating scope recapture. Not at this point. The horse is already out of the barn. Way out. I'm not willing to spend one cent of negotiating capital to tighten up scope to force Delta to put 70 or even 76 seat RJ's onto mainline.

Surely you can see why. From a pilot perspective of anyone not currently near the bottom of the Delta seniority list, why would I want a huge voting block of junior pilots suddenly on the list? Why would I care about airplanes I'll never bid to fly?

Surely you can see why. From a company perspective, why would I want thousands of pilots with 12 or more years of seniority pay scale when I could hire those same pilots onto the 1 year pay scale? And, pick and choose from amongst them, and even choose military pilots as well.