Originally Posted by
intrepidcv11
We are truly screwed as long as we have 50%+1 made out your type. Thought the glaring gutting of mainline jobs in the Noughties might turn the tide, but obviously not. And no one ever said scope the RJ's, but allow international code share at will. Btw let me know when 76 seaters are flying from EWR-AVP. They will be doing all former mainline flying according to what has been released so far.
Mesa Airlines to début United EMB-175 operations in June - ch-aviation.com
United had a similar scope clause in the 90s and we had over 12,000 pilots in 2001, so this isn't a straight line comparison. It was 9/11 and not SCOPE that caused the furloughs. Also, DAL has a worse scope than we do and they have 12,000 pilots as well.
Not only that but the full force of the scope provision isn't in place until Jan 2016 when it is at its most restrictive, so I'm not convinced that this is costing jobs, especially when we have hired 400 pilots off the street and recalled a total of 1,700 furlougees from CAL and UAL. far exceeding the number of retirements in the last 4 years. That's 2,100 more pilots than were actively flying for CAL or UAL in 2010.
We were told by the naysayers that if we voted in this scope we would furlough 1,500 - 2,000 pilots, and the reality is that the opposite has happened.
Hiring is the only true barometer of whether the scope clause is working the way we wanted it to, and apparently they can't hire as fast as they want because of training problems in IAH.
Word.