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.
Management doesn't have the guts to do it first of all. Do you really think they would merge and inherit the longevity of a regional, plus the training costs, just to watch them slide over to top scale pay, just to spite the pilot group? That's a bluff I am willing to call all day long because it is an empty threat.
Not only that, but the "gold standard" these days is relative ratio based on category far, far more than it is DOH or simply list ratio. If someone brings top 10% senior RJ CA to the table before the "merger", they will be top 10% senior RJ CA after the merger. Nothing more. Management would hate a "regional windfall" as much as the pilot group would.