Originally Posted by duvie

If Alaska doesn't want their flying outsourced then they need to vote to change their scope. PERIOD. Regionals respond to RFPs, they are businesses and we are their pawns and like Rickair said, we don't have a choice unless we want to lose our jobs.

I will say this once more just in case anybody missed it: the regional race to the bottom was started by mainliners voting away their scope. I don't know their reasons for voting yes, but I know for some airlines management said: we'll give you that 10% pay increase across the board if you raise the scope from 50 seat jets to 76 seaters. I don't think most mainline guys had any idea what their vote meant at the time, but here we are.