.... which brings me to a rant!
Over the last fifteen years ALPA has been told, repeatedly, that their efforts to divide our union along "regional" and "mainline" terms to monetize and bargain in outsourcing was a recipe for disaster.
Personally, I've written my Reps and ALPA's Presidents dozens of letters on why, even if they insist on trading in the poison of outsourcing, that they should write scope language inclusively, so as to be the automatic beneficiaries of any new flying scheme management creates. Instead they have written language by exception and exclusion, using outdated terms and past models which are easy for management to circumvent.
Now we see unbranded regional carriers getting relative seniority SLI results.
Air Canada Jazz is operating 757's across oceans. The cat is pretty clearly out of the bag.
Aside from the outsourcing issues, look at where ALPA's nonsensical scope constructs have brought us on seniority and longevity issues? You think I'm joking about Delta pilots working for Bedford? Just look at past trends and draw a line.
Obviously, I don't think that will happen or else I'd be working for him already. But, unless ALPA pulls its collective head out of the sand and address unity, that will be the result. Moak's safe, most of the list figures they'll ride it out until retirement and they'll be safe. If you are under 57 years of age you need:[LIST][*] ALPA to adopt a scope policy that favors ALPA members[*] Delta to develop a model which makes domestic flying profitable (yeah, even if it means small airplanes that pay less than big ones)