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Originally Posted by OCCP
Timbo,
If you mainline types would stop voting away scope, Comair wouldn't be in this situation. You complain how Comair and asa stole your jobs but you guys sold out the scope.
No, if we stopped voting away mainline scope, Comair wouldn't EXIST in the first place! That is the POINT! It was NEVER their flying!
Just to be clear, starting with our 1996 contract, the first one we had membership ratification for, I have voted NO on every T/A that came down the pike to the DL pilot group, except this last one.
Why?
Because except for this last one, all the others allowed more outsoucing of OUR small jet flying.
This last one brings OUR flying back to Delta Mainline, in the form of 88 more jets, and THAT is YOUR ONLY HOPE of ever getting a job at mailine Delta.
The Delta Pilots are not your enemy. Pick up (and read it!) a copy of Flying the Line, vol. 2.
What is happening now, is simply history repeating itself. Most of you RJ guys weren't around when it happened the first time, in 1983-1991, but whipsawing is nothing new in this industry. Before RJ's came along, it was being done to the mainline.
Remember Frank Lorenzo??
Google the CAL strike of 1983, and the UAL strike of 1985, and the Eastern Airlines strike of 1989. Airline CEO's found a loophole in our contracts, there were no scope limits for 'regional carriers' because at that time (1980's) the regionals were flying smaller turbo-props and piston twins, ie. Piper Navajos and F27's. The Major pilot groups didn't see anything to fear there....
Then along came the Canadair Challenger, extra large. There was nothing in the scope clauses to prevent it, and management saw an opportunity to outsouce mainline flying, at 'regional pay'.
I was against it, many of us were, yet there was nothing in our contract to stop it and ALPA National allowed it, just like they allowed the B scale, an American Airlines (non-ALPA) invention, to permeate every ALPA contract. Next thing I know, I'm displaced off my Captain seat back to F/O, Delta is furlouging for the first time in the history of Delta Air Lines (1993), and Com Air is hiring and flying RJ's, bought and paid for by... DELTA AIR LINES.
Brilliant! If you were an Airline CEO.
If you were a furloughed mainline pilot, not so much.
So, now we are (Finally!) taking some (not all) of our flying back.
You got a problem with that?
Why?
Did you want to stay at Com Air making minimum wage forever?