Originally Posted by
Superpilot92
understand you're talking about the small "rj"s", I'm more concerned about a perminant cap on the current numbers and ensuring the next big "RJ" (read 100 seats) comes here regardless of the numbers. The numbers on a 100 seated should be there for us considering we have the 100 seaters already and the next gen 100 seater should be even cheaper to operate. Bottom line is regardless of the "numbers" any future aircraft need to come here and only here with our pilots flying them.
Am I missing something? Anything above 76 seats is ours now per the PWA, and we already have rates for them. I see no one talking about giving them up other than a few paranoid junior pilots. I have not spoken to a single Rep who would even contemplate any more give on Scope, no matter the quid. The only way we are going to get anywhere in 2012 is a unified pilot group, and the quickest way to destroy it is by contemplating selling Scope (and the frozen N pension). I see or hear no talk of either.
Does that mean that a few of our 1% er's won't suggest it or that management won't try? Of course not. It's ours to lose, not to capture. Call your Reps, write resolutions, and recall anyone who does not protect Scope.
Also keep your eye on the ball - it's not just RJ's, but cabaotage, foreign ownership, code shares, bad Open Skies - all these are sources of potential outsourcing. We are still screwed if we maintain 100 seat flying but lose the above.