ACL65,

Your concern echos my concern voiced over the last couple of years.

Our MEC found reasons why ASA and Comair flying was not Delta flying. Same with Mid West and Compass. Now my bet is that we will witness the same thing with Delta Private Jets and Republic. Our MEC does not want us to perform small jet flying. They hope we can profit from it.

The huge risk is that schemes that rely on outsourcing to generate unearned profits generally fail when middle man is cut out & they themselves are outsourced. If Delta management will do what they have done to subsidiaries like Comair and Compass, or Mesaba back in the dark days, we have no reason to believe they would not do it to us in a heartbeat.

Delta Private Jets already operates aircraft which FAR EXCEED our scope's weight limits. Our scope is absolutely clear, our union's lack of enforcement is also crystal clear. So what when Delta Private Jets hires a couple of retired 737, A330, A320 and 747 Captains to fly charters? Are we are establishing a "past practice" which dooms future enforcement attempts to failure?

We need the acknowledgement from our MEC that outsourcing is poison. It is a systemic risk to the survival of our pilot list and our association. They've got to stop trading in this crap.