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Originally Posted by Irishish
Exactly! You protect your own job through scope. I'm not necessarily blaming pilots for what they have given up in recent history as its been hard times for quite a while now, but at least it seems to be going in the right direction now. I think we need to realize we are all in this together and at least try to be on the same team (PDT, PSA, and US Airways are all three subsidiaries of the same company anyway).
You seem to be arguing against yourself, or I'm misunderstanding. You say you protect yourself through scope, but that we are on the same team and we have to look out for them.
Whether my flying was given to PDT, PSA or Mesa, we don't fly it anymore. To a large degree our pensions went to fund wacky Dave's 50 seat RJs that PSA is flying. How do you strengthen scope for the mainline while looking out for the wholly owned? What am I missing?
Take for example the Q400. Through a quirk in scope it wasn't allowed here. Most guys that are aware of that don't have anything against PDT flying them and a lot of us think they would be better for everyone concerned than 50 CRJs, in certain markets. But, why would we give it up for nothing? This company sure doesn't give us something for nothing. If the company really wanted them, there was a way to get them.
I know that the transformation of this business with regionals was going to happen, DL let that horse out of the barn while we (US) held the line at no jets at the regionals. And I would prefer that it was done in house, but my point is that no one can expect another group to take care of them. There has been a chip on some folks shoulders about that for some time now. Plus, when we tried to negotiate a flow through, there was resistance to flowing back down. I get it, I don't expect the wholly owned to protect my flying, but it goes both ways.
I wish Piedmont had structured things differently back when the bought Henson. I think ALPA messed it up and now we us vs. them, but that's the way it is.
I've flown with lots of great folks from PDT and PSA. I hope we keep hiring them and that our unions could work better together.