Originally Posted by
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XJT was supporting you becomming ALPA but as far as getting the Q which circumvents the the scope clause and took some of the XJT flying moved us over to the nightmare called terminal A we do not support.
Look- like it or not XJT's 50 seat feed is mainline flying. It's not yours just like it's not Colgans or CommutAir or Chatauqua's. Don't try to ack like poor XJT. You're company tried your branded flying and your at-risk Delta stuff after Colgan came in, and they both didn't work out.
Second- the CAL MEC doesn't take an issue with Colgan's Q400 flying because it feel into the realm of their scope. They knew what they were agreeing to when they signed Contract 2003 (?). I don't think that any regional should be operating an aircraft with more than 19 seats, but to label it as scope circumvention is not fair, because it wasn't.
I think that the XJT guys just go too used to being CALs only feed. And I will admit it's a great company with an excellent contract and a good product. But it doesn't change the fact that CAL came to XJT and offered them the Q400, however your management balked at the offer, feeling turboprops were below them.
And why do the XJT guys not take more of an offense to CommutAir? EWR-ACK, EWR-SYR...that was "your flying", too.