Originally Posted by
hockeypilot44
Can we talk about scope? Wasn't it last year that Moak signed a letter of agreement letting the company slide on its alleged scope violation because we were afraid of arbitration? Why did this LOA let the company order even more outsourced airplanes? I can see letting them slide to avoid arbitration, but to leave their interpretation open to order even more planes? Come on. I don't think I've ever been more upset about scope than the one yesterday. ALPA will not even admit there's a problem. They keep pointing out that overall DCI jets are decreasing. What's scary to me is that replacing 50 seaters with 70-76 seaters is worse than ordering more 50 seaters, and ALPA keeps pointing out that we are winning the scope battle. We have 4 hour flights across the country being flown by these planes that Delta just ordered more of.
These are part of the 255 jets allowed under our joint contract. The very contract which was approved by our own pilot group. Plus RAH already owns these E170's, & will shift them from the Frontier system to the DAL system.
The LOA that Lee Moak signed to avoid arbitration has absolutely nothing to do with the RAH E170 deal. The only thing that LOA allowed was to keep the number of 76 seaters at 153.