Originally Posted by Bucking Bar

Gloopy,

As usual, Delta is slowly liquidating the most expensive carrier and placing growth within our network where it is less expensive to operate. We permit this through multiple failures (aka use of bargaining leverage to trade jobs for pay) of our scope. The result is that retirements will mostly be backfilled by pilots who are not on our seniority list.

Management was remarkably transparent in their last quarterly earnings call. Pilots from Endeavor to Air France are part of a single transportation system. We are a niche. A large niche, but we risk no longer being the pilots of Delta airlines. We are but one group which does some Delta flying. Not really different than Endeavor. God knows I fought this.

As long as we use our scope to divide labor we will not see our pilot group grow, or prosper in the ways that we had envisioned. We must change our mindset and use scope to unify labor.