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Originally Posted by alfaromeo
So, when exactly did Bucking Bar and ACL and the majority of Delta pilots on this board get hired? Wasn't that after 2006 when the "scope sale" took place? I don't understand. Why would Delta hire pilots and American have 1,900 pilots on furlough? Didn't we sell our jobs away and American kept their jobs through strong scope? Something doesn't compute here. Explain.
Alfa,
This is a complicated issue that does not lend itself to an easy comparison. As you well know, Scope is just one factor among many when it comes to hiring. I was hired in early 2000 and furloughed during the "Scope Sale." My furlough, along with that of over 1000 other DAL pilots was the result of many factors, not just Scope, but to be sure - weak Scope was definitely one of them.
Yes UAL and AMR had far more, and much longer lasting furloughs than DAL, but I feel this had more to do with DAL guys taking early outs for the lump sum then anything that had to do with our Scope.
I voted yes for this TA because in my opinion it improved Scope. Even so, I must admit I was not happy with more 76 seat Jets being outsourced, but all in all I thought it was an improvement, mainly because our Scope was downright horrible before this TA.
In hindsight it appears DAL management made a huge error going bonkers with the RJ "explosion" of the last decade. DALPA made a few mistakes also but hopefully we are finally moving in the right direction.
Scoop