Originally Posted by
GoCats67
If you honestly believe this then you are beyond hope!
Scope is the only thing that will allow you to count on paying your bills or your ability to go on vacation! Without it, your job (and thus your livelihood) can be outsourced tomorrow.
When you've got unlimited codeshare scope becomes irrelevant. RAH proved that with whipsawing the Midwest pilots against us.
"Make these changes in you contract or we'll ship all your Airbus flying to the guys who were just flying narrow bodies themselves." They had a spare certificate, and a workforce who finally balked at ~$90/hr for the 717. I think they would have jumped at the chance to get off unemployment and fly 319s for $160/hr, but I have no way of knowing what ALPA's stance would be on such a move, but there wasn't a strike, and the family is hungry...
RAH likely could have done it because we don't limit codeshare, and they have no integrity. Check your own contracts. SWA used to be the only major with zero codeshare for a long time. I haven't looked lately.