Originally Posted by alfaromeo

Well, they may have to change their interests or their careers. As others have said, this process will take time. When Delta and Northwest merged our contract reduced the amount of 70+ seat RJ's from the combined total of the two independent groups. ALPA signed it. ALPA is in the process of helping CAL/UAL try to negotiate an elimination of all outsourced flying, if there was a conflict, then why is ALPA doing this?

One of the main reasons that the Delta MEC worked to facilitate this merger was to broaden the network so that more mainline flying would be profitable and to lessen reliance on RJ's. Delta now has 200 less RJ's than DL/NW had before the merger. Here is an example that Hauenstein used in the DL investors conference:

DAB to ATL

August 2009 : 7 flights per day, average gauge 66 seats
September 2010 : 4 flights per day, average gauge 138 seats

This is exactly what we envisioned when we signed on to the merger. ALPA has no conflict between RJ's and mainline. They want pilots to all get paid more money. If we don't lift up the RJ carriers, then they will be a drag on us our entire careers. If we lift them up and draw them into mainline, we can eliminate outsourcing. ALPA wants this. Those jobs aren't going away, they should just become better jobs that work for mainline carriers.