Originally Posted by
Vikz09
According to Mr. Leach, who sent a email recently to all Compass employees. TSA holdings plans on growing Compass by putting our services out to
ALL carriers. Not sure Delta thought this through. It appears Compass could be used to provide the E175's to the competition, grow in size and continue the downward spiral of scope erosion. The pilots of Compass are against growing this airline at the expense of better paying mainline jobs. Now it appears management will continue to increase the size of larger RJ's whether at Delta or elsewhere. This industry contines to out manuever the labor at every turn!
I joined Compass early on because NWA told the applicants that Compass was the way to get to NWA since NWA would not hire in the future and pilots would first come from Compass & Mesaba when needed. The MEC controlled this flying, the million dollar question is why they did not want to control who and how the large RJ flying was used.
Unfortunatly, these we concerns of ours when the whole discussion of divesting Compass from the mainline MEC was being discussed. Once that was done it opened the door for our sale to TSA and now this discussion of adding planes and new carriers and stalling our careers even further.
I am not sure how you feel the MEC controlled this flying. The only thing we have is whats in the contract. The issue of representation has no bearing at all on this sale. Delta could have sold Compass regardless of the representation status at Compass. Sometimes I wonder if pilots ever actually read the contract. They could even have sold compass if we had somehow pulled off a miracle and convinced management to merge it into the mainline unless we also managed to add fragmentation language for those aircraft.