Originally Posted by RockyBoy

I also agree it is a complex issue, but how can you say the scope at AA has not done the bottom 2000 guys any good? If AA had the ability to have 255 70-76 seat RJ's I guarantee you they would have ALOT less MD-80's and more guys furloughed. If your talking about turboprops flying into small towns and 50-seaters flying into small cities within 500 miles, I can almost buy the argument that the feed will create mainline jobs. However, when you have 70-76 seat RJ's flying routes up to 1500 miles, you are not "feeding" mainline, you are "replacing" mainline. Also, do you think CAL would still be flying 737-500's if they could fly 76 seat RJ's? Lots of mainline jobs still at CAL due to their scope not allowing ANY 70-76 seaters. Scope protects jobs for guys at the bottom of the list, there is no way it creates furloughs.

On the argument of facts, nobody but the company and ALPA have the ability to show us those facts. Neither of them are willing to show us the facts, so until we get an MEC that has some balls to get them, we'll just keep on complaining without them. I guess it wouldn't matter anyways because according to the MEC, we aren't smart enough to know what would be best for us even if we did have the facts.