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Wheels up
Got news. The APA isn't going to accept ANY more >50 seat jets of ANY kind as commuter exceptions. Period. If there's ANY issue that the membership is solid on, it's scope. Even the most diehard of company concessionists agree on that. And at the rate the company is stalling, it's going to be another couple of years before anything meaningful might happen on section 6. And there might just be a pretty creative solution that won't involve AE ALPA.
American, Continental, and Southwest are pilots are holding the line.
Delta ALPA sold-out to Anderson, but now finally realize that they were incredibly stupid to do so.
UAL ALPA just doesn't matter much anymore and likely will not matter at all by the end of the year.
USAPA matters even less.
--one of 10,000 Drunken scurvy dogs
We are not discussing a new scope exception, we are discussing a previosuly negotiated scope excpetion that was already granted that would allow them to buy more CRJ aircraft... The APA did try to fight it since it has been so many years since they granted the exception, but the arbitrator has ruled that AMR does have the right to exercise the CRJ options.... Now, the big question is, do they actually HAVE any CRJ options. As recently as 2006 they were tellign people it was 25 CRJ options... now they claim it is only 22 CRJ options. They have never shown ANY option contract to anybody.