Originally Posted by
acl65pilot
I am all for having specific carriers defined in the PWA that will perform the outsourced flying.
That would possible allow us the ability to jack the house up in terms of their pay. But doing it in the DCI mess that is currently being used is a useless act.
ACL - IMHO that would require our using mainline bargaining capital to jerrymander the flying awards. The only LEGITIMATE use of our bargaining capital is control our own flying & to bring the flying here. I'm not sure it is such a good idea to try to control OTHER airlines' flying.
For instance - Northwest did not want NWA funds used to purchase RJ's. So they used their contractual scope to try to steer the flying awards to non owned carriers. Delta did sort of the same thing. The problem for Comair and ASA pilots is that their union was used to steer flying to SkyWest, Republic and other non union, non owned, carriers. That MAY BE illegal and it certainly isn't in keeping with what's best for our profession.
A BETTER solution is to use our power to restore the flying to mainline.