Originally Posted by
iahflyr
The same could be said for us replacing 50 seat jets with the CRJ-550, but for some reason we used a bunch of negotiating capital to basically knee cap these airplanes. This is the worst part of our otherwise really good contract.
Those planes were specifically designed to evade our scope clause. The fact that they aren’t operationally useful right now is a testament to the original scope language, not a reason to change it.
UAL could fly as many of the 550’s as they want at any weight they want if they just put United pilots in them.
Alternatively, they can count them as the “large RJ’s” they were originally designed as and upgauge some 175 flying to mainline planes.