Am I missing something, does this dude make any sense to any one else on here, anyone?

True, but E175’s are never going to be flown by Alaska Airlines or the pilots on the Alaska Airlines seniority list. The last chance we had to fix it was “Contract 200”. We have not negotiated anything in the ensuing 8 years. Hoping for something in the form of scope and protective provisions by 2024. The next two years are toast as we torch the cash supply flying empty jets

Yawn. The concept of integrating a mainline list with a wholly owned regional has been kicked around since Delta bought Comair in 1999. It will never happen for 1000 different reasons. Talking about it is just mental masturbation. Arguing about is is foolish.

Notice that people like this never give specific reasons why. "1000 different reasons" is not an argument BTW

This is the typical "we're special at Alaska" mentality that got us in this position. Without scope all the bluster in the world won't stop management from having qx fly 190s or Cseries while you guys remenice about your special relationship with management that dulled your senses to the expansion of regionals over the last 20 years.

You keep believing your special and see how far that gets everyone. I can't wait to spend my commute explaining how we're the only airlines with regions flying 100+ planes for half what we could have done it for.

So your answer is to fly 100 to 145 seats at a 25% discount so that we can pretend like we have scope. Still waiting on the 50 to 100 seat plan...Lets do a 50% discount...Then we will have A scale, B scale and C scale...Sounds good to me. Lets propose it. We will use Skywest/Horizon rates for our C scale, Sun Country’s rates for our B scale and our rates for A scale. If you are a C scale crew you get C scale work rules and such......Get er done Mr Delorean

Wait...jetblue has a permanent B scale on the 220? And it is a B scale that pays 96% of their A scale? And by that logic, does delta have an A/B/C/D/E/F/G/H/I scale? Are you even familiar with the history of the B scale in this industry? Separate pay scales for different sized planes is not a B scale. What those rates are is up to the pilot group to negotiate. I’ll take JB’s scope and $220/hr E190 rates + $264/hr A220 rates ($224 and $269 next year if this LOA passes) over AS’s outsourced RJs and no scope any day. Also, just to be pedantic since it seems fitting for a response to your post, there’s no such thing as a 700MAX.

We’re sitting here arguing about whose contract is better when all 3 of our pilot groups will see losses due to the new 3 way between AA/AS/JB when the real winners will be management and the share holders.

In times like these the objective is not to be better, it's to suck less than the other guys

All you guys are on the board of directors? And here I thought this was a pilot’s message board.

Pilots don’t decide who merges with who. What you all think “should” happen is completely irrelevant.