Originally Posted by Mesabah

That is a function of how management has to comply with the provisions of the scope recapture. This is how management gets ALPA to run and hide when scope is brought up. All management has to do is adjust the career expectations of regional pilots and force a merger with the mainline. Under the American legal system regional pilots will be stepping into captain positions at Delta.

This is solely a function of management, the only way to get flying back once it is gone is to get management to want to put that flying back on the mainline. ALPA does not have the political will power to recapture flying, neither will any other union.