Originally Posted by
CarolinaAngler
How is that a good post? The regionals wouldn't exist in this capacity today if you didn't vote for it. Mainline pilots allowed executives to create this nightmare. I get it though. You voted to relax scope knowing full well what would happen, but you wanted to get what you could when times were tough. Sound familiar?? Pretty much like every regional; fighting to get what they can. Regionals would still be props today if it werent for the vote of the pilots.
Carolina,
Our senior pilots would still vote scope sales if we had not shamed them for having done so. They've enjoyed cross collateralization of their pay and they have no intention of giving a penny back. You have to balance that knowledge with the fact they don't grasp the reality of the post deregulation market and they've had 50% of their earnings and pensions stripped away from them.
And your post is mostly correct, but not exactly correct. There was no small aircraft scope prior to roughly 1995. Several of the first deals were actually scope improvements. ASA was more of a codeshare partner than an express carrier back then. Not unlike Alaska is today.