Originally Posted by
ForeverJunior
An important thing to remember about scope, especially when it comes to the Alaska pilots is that it shouldn't focus solely on regional type flying. What is to stop AAG from getting some outfit to fly 787's with the Eskimo painted on the tail?
I agree, but historically the biggest threat for outsourcing has been smaller aircraft. How many 787s is Air Group currently contracting? How many E175s and Dash-8s are they contracting? Frequency is king with regards to marketing, and that's what small airplanes give them. When Skywest first ordered E175s, we were told that they wouldn't operate any of them for Alaska. That's the biggest threat.
At this point, their international codeshare network is robust enough that the odds of them spending money to acquire large airplanes is almost nil.
We need protection for both, but I would go after the small airplanes first, then the large end of the spectrum.
Originally Posted by
ForeverJunior
Anything having more than ZERO seats and above a certain gross weight (ALSO ZERO) should be flown by pilots on the Alaska Airlines seniority list.
Fixed. Scope isn't strong enough until anything with an Eskimo on the tail has an Alaska Airlines flight crew in it.