Originally Posted by hockeypilot44

Those of you that think the scope battle is over are naive. Delta has 0 narrow-body aircraft on order. Tran States has 100 Mitsubishi jets on order (100 seat aircraft) with no where to fly them. Republic is taking delivery of E-190's and has C-series jets on order. These regionals are securing 100 seat jets to start taking delivery in 5 years with no where to fly them. Common sense says that Delta is going to ride the life out of our current narrow bodies, then try to outsource them. ALPA represents us and Tran States. Delta could very easily turn into a 5000 pilot airline without ever furloughing. I can already hear the arguments.

Delta management: We have 800 pilots retiring this year and no airplanes on order. We're going to shrink. We still need more lift though so we'll hire some outside lift to feed our international market. It won't affect you guys though because we're still hiring.

ALPA: We need a 20 pecent raise to make this happen.

Delta management: Done. See we can still get along.