JoeMerchant
ASA pilot
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Tim47SIP said:Scope involves seats and that is something management can't get around unless ALPA allows it.
Well, we all know how effective ALPA has been. Just ask all those carriers with their no furlough clauses. For the last 15 years, ALPA has been trying to manipulate the system for the advantage of the big five. The arogance has become so thick and the blinders so large, that the industry just did a sidestep and shot around them. ALPA is now looking around trying to figure out what happened. If they would have been a little more concerned with all flying instead of just the cool stuff, we wouldnt be having this conversation. My guess is that you WILL see up to 110 seat aircraft at DCI, Mesa, etc. Should it happen at all? Absolutely not! But with JB rates where they areas well as LCC competition, management will be forced to persue and emulate those pay and operating structures. There is no way mainline will stoop to that low of pay. If they do, we are all in trouble. I guess they are screwed if they do, and screwed if they dont. What an industry we are in!!!
Well said Tim!
I am all for regaining control of the flying for purposes of "job security". However, I have to be a stakeholder in whatever group is trying to regain that control. If I'm not and a mainline MEC through ALPA tries to regain this flying by either:
1. Undercutting the industry standard,
2. Not respecting my seniority,
or
3. Physically taking airplanes from my carrier,
... then we are going to have SERIOUS problems.
Joe