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Since I wasn't paying much attention back then about bscale airlines let me ask what was the deal with it? Was management just trying to carve a regional rj airline out of the existing DAL complete with cheap salaries on the 732 or was there a threat from outsourcing (using jet service) as there is now?
It is my understanding that it was a management attempt to restructure airline pay scales by offering the pilots still on the property the same rates they were currently flying, but pay any new hires a lower rate for flying the same aircraft/routes etc.
The current pilots jumped at it since it wasn't their pay being affected. The new hires eventually came to resent the attitude of "I got mine" and started a great deal of internal dissension.
It always goes back to management tactics of divide and conquer