Originally Posted by Thor

Yes it's obvious that the company probably doesn't want to be constrained by the contract they signed and will most likely try to weasel out of the NSNB clause anyway they can.

My contention is that any relief is WAY more valuable than a mid-course pay adjustment. It's not called scope-CHOKE for nuthin'.

One solution is for the company to buy more narrow body airplanes which clearly would help the capacity problem and offer job security to those pilots near the bottom of the list. There's no reason for pilots to give away scope, or even relax it, for the company to take the "buy more lift" path. There truly isn't anything preventing them from bringing more mainline aircraft into the system.