Many of you make a very good point. Scope is Section 1 for a reason. It's the most important Section of our Contract. I'm a strong supporter of our current Scope language and find it to be excellent. IMO, our Scope language caught something it was not intended to catch with the Korean NRT-HNL route which activated USA-Japan flying block hour protection in the midst of the Narita Hub wind down. Granted Korean could just kill the route and make this whole issue go away.
By no means should we ignore the violation. Hopefully the NC is already doing it but it should be used as leverage for greater gains in a Korean JV agreement or greater gains in other sections of our Contract. For example make only the NRT-HNL flight exempt and fix Deadheading. The previous administration saw the forrest for the trees and renegotiated the Narita Fifth Freedom flight PWA language for more sensible Trans Pacific block hour language that went along with the company's restructuring plans.
Again in terms of the big picture the Union shows Pacific block hours starting a steep decline in 2014 while our global widebody block hours show stable or growing during that time period which along with our profit sharing checks suggest the flying was reallocated to more profitable theatres. Cue the DALPA slogan from the Virgin LOA: Global Protection trumps Threatre Protection.
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