As an old guy our almost worthless international scope language won't hurt me much. That being said, I will fight to improve it until I fly my last round trip to Sydney.

I hope the new Delta pilots are reading and paying close attention.

In my opinion this is the number one issue we need to tackle going forward.

Allowing management to outsource our international flying via JVs is not in our best interest, just like allowing over 800 RJs until our regional partners did over 65% of our domestic departures was not in our best interest.

United started SFO to Singapore last year and is now adding LAX to Singapore.

Please spare me the "we can't make money on international".

How did we get to over 800 RJs?

By line pilots repeating the excrement management was whispering in their ear.

"The RJs are saving our bacon!!!"