Originally Posted by
PilotJ3
1. I’m not ignorant. 2. I understand that bankruptcy and other situations and the time is what took us to this point. 3. My point to his reply is that the retirees are not only pilots, there’s so many people that had/have no voice/vote in what the company wants to do with the scope and they also help to build the company the way it is today.
The only and single line of defense for scope is the pilot group.
You are correct that the Pilot group was and is the line of defense for Scope. What I am trying to point out is that our whole PWA was decimated during a time when Pilots had zero clout.
I could see the whole Scope sale issue if we were making gains in other areas of our PWA and losing ground on Scope.
Bottom line is mainline Pilot groups were taken to the cleaners in every part of our contract including Scope not at the expense of Scope.
Since about 2012 DALPA has done quite well with Scope. Not perfect but pretty good. The percentage of passengers flown by connection carriers, perhaps the most important metric, has come way down.