There’s three questions I have?
1. When regional airlines make a profit, that just means the “mainlines” are paying too much for the regionals. It is profit that the legacies could be making on domestic flying. Why are they outsourcing the profit? After all Southwest would disagree with the domestic market not being profitable.
2. If pilots were to keep strong on scope in exchange for current payscales, what is stopping management from filing bankruptcy just to cancel contracts and leave the door open for more outsourcing?
3. Although I feel scope is important, I feel domestic code sharing could be worse to the profession. What could you negotiate to stop domestic codesharing?
I’m not sure where this industry is going but I think it is going to be a shift away from outsourcing of domestic flying. A few regionals have looked at, or are currently doing their own branded flying because regional contracts are becoming few and far between now.