To answer your question, and what I think your real question is:
(1) Scope is the contract language that binds the company to the pilots on its seniority list. Scope in its most simple form says ASA pilots will perform all of ASA's flying. The problem for ASA, is that non-union SkyWest has stripped airplanes away from ASA. So at ASA you not only have to worry about the goings on in DCI, but also SkyWest Inc.'s preference for their non-union family at SkyWest Airlines.
ASA has scope that binds SkyWest and Comair has language that binds Delta. I'm not familiar enough with the language to quote the terms of those job projections.
(2) It looks like retirements will start pulling a lot of pilots through the regional ranks beginning in 2013.
Last edited by Bucking Bar; 11-04-2008 at 06:35 PM.