Originally Posted by
hookshot123
My view. Overall an improvement in scope. I prefer to protect the global level of international flying. Trying to micro manage each theater is marketing's job, not ours.
And no one is mentioning the huge win in not counting A321s or 737s in the global number. A few weeks ago that was the great boogie man that we would lose all our true widebody flying. As the 7ERs and 757s are replaced we will defacto grow the amount of super widebody (330/350 etc.) flying we all desire.
Hook
Incorrect. They signed a contract with us that if we let other airlines fly our passengers, it would be 50/50 with us. That agreement did not say, 50/50 unless you think you can make more money flying to Japan instead. SCOPE IS YOUR JOB!!!! If you allow them to outsource your job to AF/KLM or whomever while they 'make more money' flying somewhere else, you are outsourcing your job the same way that allowing a 90 seat RJ is cheaper than putting a 717 on the route.
We lost jobs by the company not complying with our JV agreement. If there is money to be made in another theater, they have 2 options (besides reneging on our contract): Fly the JV routes and ADD (more jobs?!?) routes to the new locations; or force the JV partner to comply with the JV contract since the route is not worth flying.
Giving away our job to the lowest bidder is NOT the answer. We lost jobs. The FAQ is misleading, a half-truth, and should be fixed. I wrote my reps about it already.
I'm trying to give the MES the benefit of the doubt, but this is starting to look like a sales job similar to last years.