Ladies and Gents

I'm a Delta guy but heed my warning. DO NOT GIVE ON SCOPE. If you open that door you will never ever get it shut again. Your scope is the holy grail of your contract. We made the mistake at Delta of allowing the RJs in over a decade ago. The line keeps moving, first its only 50 seats, then 70, then 76 seats and the numbers of RJs kept going up. Now we finally have a hard cap at 450 RJs at a time when the pendulum has swung and now they can't find enough pilots to staff them.

Now at the other end is the Joint Ventures. Delta has a JV with Air France/KLM, Virgin, GOL, as well as Virgin Australia, and I can't even remember who else. They violated the scope language of our contract and settled it with the pilots for 30 Million. $2500 per pilot approximately. A paltry sum for untold loss of movement and wide body jobs. There are no circuit breakers on scope. The company will violate it and make you grieve it later with a measly settlement that isn't even close to the actual cost.

Do yourselves, your careers, and each other a favor and don't ever open that section of your contract.

JMHO
Good luck to all of you.