Originally Posted by
jethikoki
It appears in the zeal to protect so called brand or what ever against maybe a handful of so called undesirables out of thousands, ALPA and mainline pilots worked against themselves and regional pilots to bring their flying back rather then a staple after a buyout. If ALPA, DALPA and Comair would have enforced a staple you would have had more of your fling back sooner. Less ability to whipsaw regionals.
The flying was not going to be moved to the mainline. DALPA tried to show the company the 200 and 700 could operate at the mainline. Once they ran their own economic numbers even DALPA could not come close to showing we could operate the aircraft and be competitive.