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Scoop
So why do we always think of giving Scope concessions for the “hypothetical” pay raise? I hear guys mention that pilots will quickly give up 76 seat Scope in a heartbeat for a 25% pay-raise – why is that? Why not give up half of our sick leave for a 25 % pay-raise? Why not give up 5% of company matching funds? Hey, how about giving up the 5th week of vacation? At least these give-aways will affect the entire pilot group.
Could it be that small jet scope disproportional impacts the junior pilots? No that can’t be correct, because that would be kind of sleazy – some guys selling out other guys for personal gain. If the company wants a scope concession for anything - how about proportional scope? Let’s say we allow 1 wide-body joint venture international code share flight for every wide-body DAL flight, for a 25% pay-raise. Then the whole seniority group would have to think long and hard about how much they want that 25% pay-raise. That would absolutely, and should absolutely, never fly. Well then, why is it OK to sell out 76 seat scope? Answer – it shouldn’t be, and if we are truly a union we will not give another inch on SCOPE.
Delta can fly as many 76 seat and 100 seat aircraft as they want – all they have to do is put a Delta crew in the cockpit.
It appears the company is already starting to shape the new merged DAL. We are parking all the DC-9s and flooding MEM with RJs – here we go again.
Since we merged the company has parked the 747 freighters, and is now parking the lions share of the DC-9 fleet. How long until the all too predictable management demand – “We need 76/90/100 seat feed to support the hubs. Who the hell are the MEM RJs feeding? Other RJs! Screw that – wake up guys, we are like the frog in the pot of boiling water – we don’t even realize that we are being cooked.
How many Pilots did we have when the merger was announced? How many do we have now? Ask yourself the same question in two more years. Yeah, I know we don’t have any furloughs, well I agree, that is good, but shrinking the airline by attrition, which we have been doing, and continue to do, aint so hot either.
Scoop