Your “industry leading” scope is because JB is not a network carrier. JB is a point to point carrier. Same with SW. Neither airline feeds a network. You just serve cities. Massive network carriers like American, Delta, United, etc all need feed from smaller cities that mainline aircraft can’t economically fly to. JB doesn’t fly to Bismark, Minot, Grand Forks, Lubbock, El Paso, etc because it doesn’t make financial sense to do it in an A-320. So some 50 seat jet flys in there and brings those passengers to ORD, DEN, DFW, ATL, etc and mainline flies them to Europe, etc. Scope sounds like something the company had no problem agreeing to because they didn’t intend to fly to those smaller cities anyway. If they did, you’d probably be able to grow much faster. Express carriers are a double-edged sword. You don’t want them, but you need them and they can be very good for you.

Don’t accept substandard wages because you think you got a scope win. Its going to be a very long wait for your next contract, and if that happens in a downturn, you’ll be stuck there for years. That’s what happened to us at Continental.