Originally Posted by
RockyBoy
Yes, I would love for Delta to bring all 76-seat flying to mainline and bring however many guys that takes up to DL wages and benefits. Our pilot group would be closer to 14,000 instead of 12,000 and the threat of losing thousands of more mainline jobs to the 76-100 seat market would be gone. The fact that ALPA or the company will not show us a cost/benefit analysis of having that flying at DCI vs. mainline leads me to believe that it might actually SAVE them money to bring the flying to mainline. I think if we had a fleet of 200+ E-175's, E-190's, and E-195's at mainline the savings would outweigh the costs and headaches of having them at DCI and we could use the power of 14,000 of us to use those savings to restore some of what YOU lost. Or we can let DCI have all of them and shrink down to below 10,000 pilots that are getting paid less than guys at JetBlue.
+1
Someone mentioned CAL earlier, CAL has a strong scope in the sense that they limit the number of large RJs. Of course, if you talk to a CAL pilot they say their scope still sucks because of the number of ERJ145s they have running around and as crazy as it sounds there is a legit fear of replacing mainline jobs with very large turboprops. They're not happy at all about the number of Dash 8-400s running around in EWR.
Also, CAL has a weird situation with their 735s. Those are nearly 100 seaters but very inefficient.