Originally Posted by O2pilot

So what’s “our own flying” defined as anyway? If management wants to add a bunch of city pairs that we don’t currently fly with any airplanes or RJs, lets say Denver - Pensacola, is that taking “our own flying”? If we are adding 300 planes to mainline and adding flying, what flying is being taken exactly?

I voted no on the scope giveaway in 1997 and again pre-BK, but would we be better off if we completely got rid of express and the routes they are flying now? It seems to build the biggest network there are going to be routes outsourced to other carriers, because if it was profitable to do it at mainline, we would do it and management would keep that money instead of giving it to another company.

Would you rather have a United Express carrier fly DEN-PNS or just let Delta, Frontier, or Southwest do it? Because I never hear anyone complaint about other Majors doing our flying, but certainly do if its a UEX carrier. Last time I checked we don’t actually have anything called “our own flying”. Its whatever they tell us to fly.

I’m certainly not in a concessionary mood since I still have a lot of flying time left here, but I will look at the big picture when our MEC comes to us with a TA and not just rehash previous complaints that were relevant in a bygone time.