If that were the case we could (and should!) "sell" them our entire wide body scope language. All of it. Just get rid of it, and the B-School geniuses will rock out with their profits out and we will all be lifted by the rising tide. Right?

No.

They have shown an incredibly hostile propensity to use foreign metal by every plane, crew and seat they possibly can...and then they exceeded that...and merely threw some money at us when they violated it for YEARS. Every agreement gives us less than half. Why? Why does every single JV give us less than half or whatever metric they are forced to measure it by? Why can't we at least do half, or a couple percent more? Why do we always have to do less than half? Why? Always.

No one thinks they can force the company to fly wide bodies into losing routes just to give us jobs, etc. They are free to pull down whatever makes sense for them to pull down. The point of our scope is to insure that we get our fair share instead of some foreign pilot group. DL is the dominant network/revenue generator/ticket seller in pretty much all of these JV's. Yet our managers would like more and more and even more of the profitable lift that they identify and go after to be flown with foreign labor.

Our scope is the ONLY thing stopping that. DAL wouldn't exist today without DALPA PWA/CBA pilot scope. Our Section 1 is the only reason DAL as we know it currently exists. Otherwise it would be a virtual network clearing house broker.