OK I'll play along. You're just an unvested, free thinking neutral observer who happens to think SKYW will take over the world and end up flying mainline sized planes on behalf of mainline airlines.

That still doesn't explain why you want it to happen so badly.

So, in your unvested, neutral observer fashion, how big of a plane do you think SKYW will fly for DL/UA in 5, 10, 20 years?

This should be interesting.

Everyone else has too much butter on their hands from the popcorn.

That wasn't a defense of your position. If anything, your lunacy is more entertaining. Okay, I'm going to slink back to my seat. And play....

I have to say... With so many new hires at the legacies coming directly from the regionals -- many of whom suffered through the lost decade -- I have trouble imagining how these guys would ever vote for scope relaxation. Because they know exactly what further scope relaxation will do: keep guys like them, friends of theirs, stuck at the regional level that much longer.

There really doesn't seem to be any appetite among legacy pilot groups to relax scope, either now or in the future. Sure, that may change, but I can't imagine any regional flying anything larger than 76-seaters in the foreseeable future, because for that to happen, attitudes among the legacy pilot groups would have to change significantly...

Bingo. DL management wanted more large RJs in the latest deal but had to pull that in order to get an agreement. That was the largest scope victory in decades. It will only continue to tighten as more and more RJ guys proliferate the ranks of the majors and legacies.

You really don't know or understand pilots. Pilots have been subjecting thei FAMILIES, to the folly of poverty wages, moves chasing seats, equipment, furloughs, and holidays/birthdays in hotels all in the quest for this job. If history is in indicator, scope is like anything else, it has a price, and your indentured servitude will continue as soon as the Price is Right. Pilots are predictable.

2nd year pay at most legacy carriers is around $130,000 a year. If pilots vote in scope relief for another 10%, that isn't because they got hosed by the lost decade, but because they are greedy...then they deserve career stagnation and job loss because of that greed. If a family of 4 can't live off of that without a second income, they are doing life wrong.