Originally Posted by
pangolin
WHY? There’s zero benefit to united as a company to do this. The pilots at UA - great benefit. But as far as expense there’s no beating the regionals yet. No staffing issues now either. No bonus not problem.
By creating better utilization of the 70-76 seat fleet UA can use the block hours the 50 seaters were flying to move more pax without any sort of scope relief. Mesa has some very talented people in scheduling. They can take crap pairings and create highly efficient airframe use. I’m sure others can as well. Some 50 seat filler will remain.
The only value Mesa has ever brought to any company is downward pressure on labor cost.
United Alpa, or any good union always has or creates negotiating capital, they only need to decide what is quid pro quo, and what is a concession, and what is a collective gain.