Originally Posted by
sailingfun
You are correct, Scope is the issue. I believe we have a pretty good section for international code share and the company hands are tied a bit. They are at or near the limit as we speak. The whole point of my posts on the nines is that we should accept that they are going away and work on a method to recapture the flying. I have posted this several times.
We don't have to recapture DC9, and 76 seat plus flying - it's already ours - we have to prevent it being eroded further. THE best ways to accomplish that is actually have DAL mainline pilots flying 76 seaters.
It will be far easier to negotiate it away if we never have DAL pilots flying those acft, than if it means booting DAL pilots cockpits to ease Scope.
The path of least resistance to that end is to integrate Compass onto the end of our list.