Originally Posted by YANXJTPilot

Mexico I understand has a national seniority list. The electrician union would never make a master electrician start over at a new company at apprentice wages.

True Flow? I've always find it ironic we could carry United's passengers on our metal, and not get hired by United. Heck, they own 49% of us and the planes. But we're not "good enough". Our metrics and safety record say differently. Not a p contest, just data.

As for cutting scope, that's naturally occurring. We have 40-50 airplanes on property or inbound from TSA we can't staff. TSA as I understood it couldn't staff. Part of it can be answered thusly: how many young people do you even know that CARE that you're an airline pilot, much less want to become one?

At our height we had 210 jets, now last I heard we operate around 80. And that's after combining our pilot group with ASA. It would be interesting to compute how many regional pilots there are now vs. say 2007 or so. My feeling is saying scope is naturally being handled but I haven't done the math.