Originally Posted by
BATOL
To be fair, hasn't it been a major focus of past negotiations to take back scope from the regionals and get mainline metal doing that flying? That's exactly what the 717's and likely the 190's are doing. How many two class RJ's at United? I see an awful lot of them. I thought those small airplanes where what you wanted? Granted more widebody's is always great, I just mean I'm surprised to hear complaining about getting what you wanted.
...oh wait, never mind, we're pilots 😏
We want both.
A lot was lost on the bottom end and we want that rectified and a lot is
actively being lost and given away on the top end, and we want that to stop and be reversed.
I had a A330B in the jumpseat not long ago who, if correct, said that EB had told his crew personally on a flight to LHR that we made 75% of the profit on a VA codeshare and he was going to LHR to persuade them to do more. And the pilot thought that was a good thing, for PS and all... whichI bet they wouldn't mind giving away because its at risk pay but I'm putting words in their mouth. So when I say active, I mean active.
Imho, you should own 100% of your flying for brand and quality control. But airlines actively pursue outsourcing as a cost control even if it costs more than it saves.