Originally Posted by
Bucking Bar
Why just major airline operations?
How is it less safe for us to fly CDO's when they're accepted across our ramp?
Ummm... because we don't currently fly CDO's. Duh. It's like my mother used to say... "Just because all the other kids jump off a cliff, are you going to?" Just because regional airlines (who's primary objective in this grand outsourcing experiment is to have the lowest cost possible) do CDO's doesn't in any way mean we should.
Originally Posted by
Bucking Bar
CDO's exist because we permit Delta to outsource our flying and those pilots have agreed to do them.
Wrong. CDO's existed long before Delta started outsourcing our flying. They were invented by the regionals a long time ago as a way to get around the FAR minimum rest requirements. How do you think they came to be known as "illegals?"
Originally Posted by
Bucking Bar
If we fix our scope hypocrisy, killing CDO's would not even be a question.
CDO's are simply a way for the company to solve some scheduling/cost issues and a way for some pilots to enjoy every day at home (and rationalize getting by on the few hours of sleep on the CDO) so they can run a side business or spend time with family, etc.
I'm all for fixing our "scope hypocrisy" but this particular issue has very little to do with scope.