Originally Posted by
da42pilot
Perhaps we can give airline management and investors something they'd like in exchange for bringing us in house-- say, offer them to raise scope to maybe 99 seats as long as the flying is done in-house on the same seniority list.
Respectfully, this sentence shows that you don't truly understand the concept of scope and how it relates to subcontractors.
Mainline pilot scope clauses limit the size airframe a subcontractor can fly, not the size of airframe the mainline can fly.
There's zero reason for pilots to "raise scope to maybe 99 seats as long as the flying is done in-house on the same seniority list" - legacy airline management can already fly those airframes in-house with legacy pilots, they simply have chosen to not do so.