If half of the scope violations are because of one KA flight, then remove our code from that flight entirely or we do that flight ourselves. And no one buys the lame excuse that foreign airlines do whatever they want ergo we are helpless. That's the same excuse made when we went below the fake minimum floor (which was really the target all along) of the last AF/et al JV.

Poor DL, a significant stakeholder and by far the more powerful airline in the alliance can't do anything when a "partner" airline thumbs their nose at us and says we do what we wanna do therefore we have to pull down or accept a scope violation to accommodate. No one actually believes that including those offering it as an excuse.

Going forward hopefully we don't fall for any future fake targets with a minimum floor for enforcement because that floor will simply be the barely achieved goal to the best of their ability. Its high time that we take the upper range of these arrangements as the new floor for a few contract cycles at least.