IIRC This was the original problem with the N-Star agreement. It's up to company management to agree to shut down the regional completely or merger them into the mainline. If not shut down, from a legal stand point the regional then becomes an acquired company and the regional pilots then have the right to SLI.

 

That's under a Merger scenario. An attempt to bring the regionals over to the majors wouldn't be done in a merger scenario. It would be a vote at the regionals to allow the "staple". Other than doing it that way it would never be allowed to happen. If you have more junior pilots at your company they could out vote the senior guys and allow it. Doing so would be good for the industry as a whole.

 

The paragraph contains the word "acquisition."

 

A vote would mean nothing, the Allegheny-Mohawk LPP act is on an indiviual basis. Anyone can file suit under the act, an arbitrator would have to decide that a staple job was fair and equitable.

 

You're Wholly owned now so why aren't you "NWA" pilots now? Where do you guys come up with this stuff? Look at the NWA/DAL SLI do you actually think an integration of a major and a regional pilot list would EVER get off the ground?

 

That's the problem, you can't just get scope back. It's up to the company to decide what to do with the regionals. They can shut them down and incur billions in contract penalties or merger them in and let the pilots battle over seniority. I think you know which one they would choose......

 

DAL is making it pretty clear what their plans are with RJ's. They are chopping 60-70 RJ's initially. It appears that DAL wants to get rid of the smaller "RJ's" in place of bigger planes. We shall see. I think you know that a SLI between any regional and the new DAL will NEVER happen so there is no point in arguing it. If you dont want to be brought over to mainline then fine it probably wont happen anyway.. Its funny though most of the Compass guys are smart enough to see the benefits of it. They are represented by the NWALPA though so its a different deal for them.

 

Tain't personal. Never been a NWA / Mesaba / Compass employee. Just trying to get educated.

 

I'm not arguing with you; I want a staple job. I simply telling you what management has up their sleeve in terms of stopping scope recapture.

Yes the new delta contract reduces the number of 70 seat RJ's to 255 from the original 290. together delta and NWA currently operate less than 200 of these things, so they can buy more. The career slide still continues......

 

never said it was personal. I am educating you on the info i have via the NWA side. Scope is an issue in the NWA/DAL joint contract and they supposedly are working on reducing and capping the number of 70 seaters allowed. DAL wants less regional jets now hence them cancelling contracts and reducing the number of "rj's". NWA has a scope clause and the only reason why some of us even talk about wanting Compass on the list is to help compass and mesaba guys while also helping us. The 175's and crj900s should have never gone to any regional and no matter what side of the fence you are on i think we can all agree on that. Compass guys are subject to seat loss in the event of furloughs at NWA so it would be in their best interest to get on the mainline list now if it ever became an option because at least in the event of furloughs they can come back to the new NWA/DAL and come back to much higher wages. Mesabas flow agreement is different and more restrictive so it would be a different story. Its all bs anyway because the likely hood of the senior guys to see this as an issue is slim. Who knows? Stranger things have happened in this crazy industry.