Originally Posted by JetMonkey

True story.. In 1995 the Continental pilots voted in their new CBA which included scope relief for 50 seat RJ's. The scope rule was to allow for only ExpressJet pilots (Continental Express wholly owned at the time) to fly jets up to 50 seats in and out of the hubs only. There was NO plane limit written.

THE VERY NEXT DAY after the contract was ratified, Continental placed an order to Embraer for 274 EMB-145's.

Here were the now famous words spoken from the CAL MEC chairman after that... "Uh, we didn't think they were going to order that many."