This is bad for both pilot groups. From a purely RAH perspective, it is an explicit and distinct violation of our scope to have MidEx pilots fly our aircraft through a Wet/Dry lease as long as Republic Airways Holdings, Inc own the aircraft.

The reason our payrates look the way they do is because we gave that up to keep our scope...which states no aircraft owned by RAH may be operated by anyone other than an RAH pilot on the RAH seniority list operating under the RAH contract. There are a lot of holes in our contract because of it...but our scope clause is air tight. If the company wants to sell those 12 170's to MidEx, then so be it. But they sure as hell can't lease those aircraft to MidEx and then use MidEx pilots to fly them.

Either way, this is going to be a C.F. between two pilot groups that don't want to have anything to do with it. None of our pilots want to bid over to it (the ones that end up there will be displaced there); and MidEx pilots don't want us doing their flying. It's a bad deal all around...