This is not Skywest-ASA. Skywest had no union and as such no scope protection. That deal is being used to break down the union at ASA. In this case 9E has scope protection and management must fight to break it. Their weapons in the fight are the backs of the Colgan guys and gals.

Thats the point, colgan doesnt have a union either

Yet.........

the thing is that wont matter to much now. I am sure they will be union soon, but we have scope clause in our contract for this. I have even heard it said that pinnacle pilots now own all of the colgan flying and routes. now what that means is two different things. First i think the seniority lists would have to be intergrated somehow, and second there will probably be seat locks for a while till they can figure out the hiring situation. Just remember in our scope it says that any flying, present and future for pinnacle inc, will be done by pinnacle airlines pilots. so we will just have to see how this spins out.

Well, the FAQ they published to us very specifically says the each companies' routes still belong to that company and that one won't be flying the other's routes.

The question is, can Pinnacle CORP bid on new flying under Colgan name without violating that scope? And an even bigger question, when they DO bid for flying under Colgan, will PCL's ALPA have more balls and do something about it, or will they do nothing like TSA?

One company, one union, problem solved.

I would think for now, any flying bid for under "Colgan", is legal, and not in violation of scope. That's why they are keeping them SEPARATE. (I love that word).