Originally Posted by
Baradium
That contract was a scope concession from the pilot group. That pilots try to sell it themselves as a win is sickening. You are celebrating reducing the number of airframes of a type that Delta was already parking (the 50 seaters) in exchange for allowing MORE of the planes they wanted (76 seaters) as a win?
You not only didn't "improve" RJ scope, you sold more of it.
Wrong. We celebrated a huge reduction in the percentage of domestic passengers that were flown by non Delta Pilots. This percentage was huge and peaked around 2010-2012. The percentage of passengers flying on RJs has been steadily decreasing over the last decade.
Saying this was a bad move because 50 seaters were being parked anyway is faulty logic. Did this accelerate parking 50 seaters or not? Did overall numbers trend in the right direction or not? Finally who knows what alternative fleet plan the company could have went with had things been different.
In the last decade the total number of RJs, total RJ seats, and the percentage of passengers flying on mainline have all been trending in the right direction.
DALPA legitimately screwed up many things regarding Scope, TA-2 was not one of them.
Scoop