Originally Posted by
JDFlyer
But . . . . . I am calling boloney on this. This is going to end up being a negotiating tactic for higher pay/benefits for mainline pilots ONLY. In exchange for continued and possibly expanded outsourcing, mainline pilots at UAL/CAL will take a yet to be determined pay raise/benefit increase/work rule change offered by management.
If anybody on this thread truly believes that UAL/CAL pilots will hold out on this one for the "good of the profession" or any other high and mighty moral reason, please share what you are smoking with the rest of us. Quit bogarting the hookah!!
Yeah, this is probably the truth. Pilots will demand 100% scope, UA will want more outsourcing, they will compromise in the middle.
Remember, every underpaid RJ drivers subsidizes the higher wages of a mainline pilot. Even if mainline pilots were to agree to fly all the RJ's at current regional rates everyone knows that would not last past the next contract. There's only so much of the pie to go around, and the senior mainline folks would have to give something up to acquire RJ scope.
We can hope that they will hold the current line, but I would be amazed if scope gets rolled back any.