Originally Posted by
Mesabah
DCI scope changes require an open dialog, management here has said status quo going forward. The other details in the openers are unknown to me.
We start taking RJ's out of the desert in July, management here has gotten the staffing situation under control.
The regional model as it currently stands may not survive, but that is not going to change the scope section of your contract. Even if the RJ's return to mainline, it's still permitted flying, and is not flown under the mainline PWA.
Not sure what you're driving at here.
As for the bolded, we have PWA rates for the "large RJ's" although they are way too low (sub-JB by a wide margin for the E-190 which I suspect would cause a lot of righteous indignation if they even attempted it). But by definition if the currently outsourced RJ fleet or any part of it returned to mainline they would be flown under the mainline PWA as there isn't anything remotely close to B scale work rules or anything else to do it any other way.
PCL may or may not have actually and sustainably fixed their staffing crunch. I suspect its a temporary band aid approach. To any extent its working, its doing so by recruiting from other regionals and/or slowing attrition to other regionals from the same mostly fixed supply, which is insufficient for the industry as a whole at anywhere near the cost structure that enables its viability.