Originally Posted by
Captain Tony
You mainline guys (mostly junior, I suspect) can beat your chests all you want to. No one is listening. The senior pilots at your carriers are in the drivers seat and they couldn't care less about scope. They only care about pay, days off, and retirement.
Scope will be sold again as soon as the price is right. Mark my words.
And you can just hang in your barbie jet until then, captain. I prefer making 30% more in the right seat. As has been pointed out many times on APC, at UAL anyway, 70 seat scope came with the bankruptcy along with 40% paycuts and furloughs. Just how was scope "sold"? What did we get in return? The senior pilots took $5-6K per month paycuts as the first 70 seaters were coming online. If senior pilots "couldn't care less", why did senior pilots go out on strike in 1985 when the b-scale did not affect them whatsoever? All of those senior guys are gone, but the junior (now senior) guys remember. Besides, scope affects everyone. Can you say Aer Lingus? Be a little jet lifer if you want. But don't expect to be able to stand up in your cabin anytime soon. Mark my words.