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.
Are you sure about this????
Didn't we trade Scope for the following:
A 42% pay cut.
The ability to have 2 weeks less of vacation per year.
Maybe it was QOL issues, yep thats it, we traded Scope for the ability to lower our QOL.
No wait, I remember it clearly now, we traded Scope for the ability to give up our retirements. I'm positive now, management wanted us to loosen Scope and we insisted only if they kill the DB
Note to DALPA - stop trading for stuff.
Or maybe management has become adept at using the RLA and the every decade crisis to take us to the cleaners whenever they can.
Yes, DALPA and all the majors have made many mistakes over the years IRT Scope but we never traded Scope away.
Scoop