Originally Posted by atpwannabe
RedEye:
Forgive me for being naive, or rather uninformed, but what do you mean by scope? I've seen the term used countless times. I sent a PM to rickair7777 to explain it to me but he hasn't gotten back to me yet.
On another subject, with the 765 seat that would be gone as result of retiring the 727's & the DC-10's, do you think that the acquistion of new a/c will help to keep that number lower than what you projected?
atp
ATP I will try to Splain it to you.
SCOPE defines the boundries of the Labor contract.........It defines What routes, Airplanes the Pilots on the Seniority list fly...............It is very important to us.
What good is an increase in Airplanes or Routes...(from a Pilot's perspective) If the we the pilots on the List do not fly these new routes or Airplanes......................Look at the PAX carriers and their Pilots......Much of the growth in the past few years on the PAX side has been with the RJ's or small jets flown by the Express feeders instead of the mainline. Many of the routes being flown by the Feeders were once flown by mainline jets....ie DC-9s or 737's or Fokker 100's...in CORP terms........higher salaried Pilot's jobs(Big Jets) were Outsourced to Lower paying Pilot jobs( Small Jets). The problem is growing. There are more and more Small jets (and they are getting bigger) but the paychecks aren't.
As to your second question........a one for one swap of a new 2 crew airplane replacing a 3 crew airplane is one less pilot needed.......period.
All new airplanes are 2 crew airplanes.......just the way it is "Technology Rules"........The real problem will occur if they retire airplanes and don't replace them.........or replace them with "Other" Pilots flying them...........................Get the drift??