Originally Posted by sailingfun

That was hard to read but your history is a bit off. 35 years ago not 60 there were very few scope limits in contracts. That is how Delta in the early nineties could threaten to transfer all aircraft smaller than 757’s to the regionals and actually operate 4 engine DC9 sized jets at ASA. I keep reading in forums how we once had scope restricting virtually all flying to the mainline. That was not the case and actually the majors had no scope. Scope came about after deregulation and the subsequent cheaper is better airline mentality. The average number of seats from the bottom to the top of the industry has also soared.