Originally Posted by
baseball
3. It's a conflict of interest to use mainline dues money to negotiate against mainline pilots and go after the same revenue stream. "Jim Johnson. ALPA legal."
It’s not a conflict of interest. Mainline dues are not being used to negotiate against mainline. Here is how it works:
Mainline management negotiates scope with mainline pilots.
Mainline management and mainline pilots decide they don’t want to operate themselves with their own pilots.
Whatever isn’t scoped in by that negotiations is now parsed out to regional management by mainline management, aka as whipsaw.
Regional management bid on the flying.
Lowest bidding regional management wins.
Regional management negotiates with regional pilots for that flying.
In other words, the only negotiations done by regional pilots is for flying that mainline pilots couldn’t/wouldn’t scope in.
Therefore, no conflict of interest between mainline and regional pilots of the same or different union.
Originally Posted by
Cessna182TypeR
Your numbers are all off.
-36 Inbound XR’s from TSA (once XJT flown 5 yrs ago)
-XJT once flew 258+ planes on the legacy side alone. The airline has only shrunk since.
There were 274 EMB145s at XJT until 9/2009, to be more precise.