Originally Posted by
gloopy
As for union fairness and all that, why is it unfair for a mainline to get scope back, but not unfair for regionals to engage in predatory bargaining that plunder each other's existing flying? There is no moral leg to stand on at the regional level. Of course we're not talking about 01-01-2013 every single seat suddenly becomes insourced. I doubt that will even be an opener/teaser to begin with. No matter how it plays out, there will be regionals flying 50-70 seaters for most if not all mainlines for several decades. The issue is reversing the 76 seaters and limiting 70 seaters as contracts expire. That will result in decades of RFP bidding wars and the preservation of numerous seniority lists perpetually at war underbidding each other for flying.
I just as anyone else here would absolutely love to see scope recaptured by the mainline. However, I also want to see it done effectively. Right now management is drawing down regional flying because it is less cost effective and it's a horrible product for customers. Why wold we want to take the hostile approach with this?
Furthermore, I don't trust anyone who doesn't have a dog in this fight. This would be the wide body captains, the ones most responsible for selling it in the past. What's to say the DPA won't sell scope further down the river, what's to say ALPA won't?