Originally Posted by gloopy

Just to quickly address this point:

50 seaters are being parked, but the mothership is still adding new 70 seat RJ outsourced low bid flying at at least two different airlines the (skywest and republic "air groups"). Some of the smaller RJ's are only "being parked" because of their age and current economics, while larger RJ's are still being added. Those RJ's are common type with 100-118 seaters and our scope is the only thing keeping that from happening. That is where the trend vector comes into play. But rather than focusing on the current economics of the smaller RJ's, I think it is warranted to focus instead on the virtually uninterrupted increase in larger RJ outsourcing over several contracts at almost every major airline, most of which are ALPA.

In fact, the better Section 1's out there among majors are from the in house unions of Southwest and American and pre-ALPA CAL.

Does that mean it is "all ALPA's fault"? No, as it is a complex and integrated issue on all levels. But ALPA is a very large part of the process that has gotten us to where we are and so it is reasonable to expect ALPA to be scrutinized for not only their past role in outsourcing blunders but with everyone else's next Section 1.

Again, it isn't just a matter of zeroing in on what ALPA has done wrong in the past. That is part of it, but it would be nice if ALPA National and DALPA in it's entirety would agressively start admitting the mistakes of the past and sharing with us the plans to fix those problems in the future. Instead of that, the preferred methods are to completely ignore it if possible and barely mention it only when they absolutely have to. In addition to that, a significant portion of that share of barely mentioning it merely proclaims the success of the current Section 1 on two counts: a.) it could be worse and b.) 50 seat RJ's are being parked so all is well.

That bell rings hollower every time its rung.