Originally Posted by
scambo1
Bar,
I'm all for the E jets to be flown by us. Unfortunately, they were part of this TA...a carrot. I'm all for the carrot. But, the carrot was coupled with a stick. To eat the carrot, you got whacked by the stick.
This stick was partially a loss on the top end of scope. It doesn't take a ton of imagination to see that when you delete the growth opportunity on the big high paying stuff and replace it with lower paying smaller gauge jets (which pay significantly less than similar gauge we already fly) where the trajectory is.
I'm not certain you understand this completely because you are in the seniority band where you would fly left seat on the e jet...great! For me and many others, we want the jets at mainline but, they are behind us seniority-wise. It's a carrot I want, but not to get hit by the stick of big jet opportunity loss.
Scam of, as you know the change to top end scope would have been so small it would have been hard to even see its effect. It's likely the company will be in compliance with the current scope in the next measurement period. The change at the bottom was however huge. We were looking at 500 captains jobs with a fleet in the 70 to 90 jet range the company planned.