Originally Posted by
Mercyful Fate
Sorry in a labor contract like that, you don't own 100% of anything. You have an agreement with another party, both agreeing on the same terms. Which means both sides must honor that contract, which means both parties agree. Delta didn't hand over 100% of the code. You both agreed on the said terms of the contract, making both parties Co owners. Going to have to just face the music.
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The only end of our contract is that we show up for work.
What you're driving at would only make sense on the most mundane levels if, I suppose, DL/UAL/etc pilots didn't show up for work and refused to fly the code that they own. Then perhaps there would be some ability for the company to seek relief. That would technically be possible in a legal self help situation. Technically, but of course it wouldn't work, because they couldn't find 13000 scabs fast enough, and probably not nearly that many at all in any amount of time.
Short of something like that, DALPA owns the DL code WRT who flies it. UAL as well as SWA too, and many others. Not all though, so maybe SKYW can fly those scope jets at some of the places that don't own their own code. That is certainly possible. But then if they did, they would run afoul of DL/UAL pilot code ownership in the first place.