Originally Posted by
sleeves
I fully understand the scope section. It has been beat to death on here. The reason I brought it up is because it was stated that people voted no for other reasons than contract. I don't think many at LUAL realize what a blow it was to give the company more than 50 seats, especially to the jr lCAL pilots. We had fought for years to keep it. In fact we were offered no furloughs for relaxing our scope and said no. I understood that the 70 seaters were being forced on us with the merger, a huge pill to swallow, but could not get past adding almost 10% more lift to that and giving away 76 seats. That is especially tough as it is essentially the same plane as the 90 seater. I still think it was a mistake. My no vote had nothing to do with anything other then the merits of the contract.
Did we have 50 seat scope? Seems I saw a lot of of 70-seat aircraft then. As I recall CAL bought all those 35/50 seaters with a lot of advertising saying they were now a modern and safer all jet airline--with that word "safer" in every other sentence--implying that props were unsafe. We get 50-seat scope and, oops, it was only on jets. Next thing you know those supposedly unmodern and unsafe props were back as 70 seaters.