Excellent point. Many on here like to portray everything as black and white. Heroic 12, dumb 7 etc. Fact is almost everything to do with our PWA has multiple causes and 2nd and 3rd order effects.

Sometimes DALPA will try to misrepresent something: A perfect example is DALPA looking back at how the LCA trip drop changes would have affected a single category instead of a forward looking projection - major fail. The 2% number may have been 100% accurate in its very narrow and limited review, but it was useless backward looking data.

But just as many on the "No" side now try to do the same thing: My favorite is we hired record numbers despite the Scope changes in C-2012. My opinion is "who cares" - we modified Scope and then hired record numbers. At its best the Scope change may have helped, at is worse it certainly did no harm.

So when guys say "This happened because of this," its simply guys spouting opinions as settled facts.

My best guess is the 717 was coming with or without C-2012. The 50 seaters will slowly fade away on there own eventually, but 50 more 76 seaters will not affect us in the least as far as hiring goes and will probably help us. As someone who was hired in 2000 and truly affected by bad Scope decisions I find it hard to get riled up about 50 more large RJs if DCI overall is reduced.

This means overall fewer DCI Pilots and more mainjline Pilots.

Scoop