SCOPE at DELTA

[Fly4hire]

The 175 at higher weights will then be moved to this operation and Shuttle America will no logger be part of DCI. Thats how MGT gets around scope! Its to "strange" that boeing made its announcement about planes being removed, Midwest signs code share with DL, and RP is DIP.

WATCH...

Answer me this - if MEH had kept their operation with 717's would they also not still be getting around Scope? Now they will be code sharing on smaller aircraft. Are there any restrictions on the code-share, as in flights only into or out of MKE?

Not to minimize anything, but MEH was/is a pretty small operation - unless this is a backdoor to do other flying, and expand beyond the MKE flights, I do not see how it is an end run around Scope

 

[mynameisjim]

When I repeated what Compass pilots told me members of the Delta MEC rebutted that Compass pilots were not hired by NWA HR, but an outsourced HR firm staffed by former NWA employees... .

It has to be a contracted firm that hired the NWA pilots to interview Compass, because NWA doesn't let you collect retirement and a paycheck at the same time.

Compass also had a NWA pilot as an instructor, but he had to quit and get hired at a contractor because of his retirement.

 

[FlyingDawg]

Not for Delta. A code share maybe (we have a code share with Alaska too, and they fly to Hawaii from SEA), but that is about it. You will NOT be flying a plane larger than 76 seats as a Delta Connection. Nope. We gave up 6 seats in BK court to allow a certain number of 70 seaters to become 76 seaters, and that is the ONLY thing that would FORCE us to do it again. We didn't willingly give up extra seats, we were forced to, with a BK judge watching.


Bye Bye--General Lee

I wasn't suggesting it was for Delta. RAH has 3 different certificates and I bet another one is/could be added in the near future.

 

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It has to be a contracted firm that hired the NWA pilots to interview Compass, because NWA doesn't let you collect retirement and a paycheck at the same time.

Compass also had a NWA pilot as an instructor, but he had to quit and get hired at a contractor because of his retirement.

That may be the way Delta did it also... makes sense.

 

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Not for Delta. A code share maybe (we have a code share with Alaska too, and they fly to Hawaii from SEA), but that is about it. You will NOT be flying a plane larger than 76 seats as a Delta Connection. ...

Bye Bye--General Lee

General, what everyone is concerned about is Delta running MidWest as a virtual DCI carrier through code share. Passengers don't care about the name on the side of the airplane. They get on the SkWest 35th anniversary jet just like they do a Comair CRJ900.

Sure, it has MidWest code, but sold over Delta's web site no one will notice or care, but us.

Some might even claim as these airplanes fly for MidWest they are no longer RJ's under Section 1 B 40 and backfill their slots with more, large RJ's.

 

[800Dog]

Not for Delta. A code share maybe (we have a code share with Alaska too, and they fly to Hawaii from SEA), but that is about it. You will NOT be flying a plane larger than 76 seats as a Delta Connection. Nope. We gave up 6 seats in BK court to allow a certain number of 70 seaters to become 76 seaters, and that is the ONLY thing that would FORCE us to do it again. We didn't willingly give up extra seats, we were forced to, with a BK judge watching.


Bye Bye--General Lee

Actually, we willingly gave up 6 seats. The majority of Delta pilots voted in favor of a contract that allowed the company 76 seaters. All this after our ALPA reps said the line in the sand was 70. Had we stood our ground, we would be flying these jets. No way the company closes its doors over 6 seats. We are the weakest group in the industry on scope. Sad, but true.

 

[FDJ2]

these jets. No way the company closes its doors over 6 seats. We are the weakest group in the industry on scope. Sad, but true.

The company wouldn't have had to close its doors over 6 seats. The 1113c wasn't about closing the company's doors, it was about rejecting our contract. In all likelihood our contract would have been rejected, as others were, and, like others, we would have been denied the right to strike. What are the scope limits when you don't have a contract?

 

[General Lee]

Actually, we willingly gave up 6 seats. The majority of Delta pilots voted in favor of a contract that allowed the company 76 seaters. All this after our ALPA reps said the line in the sand was 70. Had we stood our ground, we would be flying these jets. No way the company closes its doors over 6 seats. We are the weakest group in the industry on scope. Sad, but true.

We didn't offer that to the company, they came after it with the BK judge in the backround. They were going to get it, and NWA had already gotten the seats to 76 seats (with the Compass deal), so that was the magic number. It was offered in a "package" deal in the end, with the person who was presiding. Hard to turn that down. You know that.

Bye Bye--General Lee

 

[800Dog]

The company wouldn't have had to close its doors over 6 seats. The 1113c wasn't about closing the company's doors, it was about rejecting our contract. In all likelihood our contract would have been rejected, as others were, and, like others, we would have been denied the right to strike. What are the scope limits when you don't have a contract?

And we could have walked! No judge can force you to work. No backbone at the big D.

 

[General Lee]

And we could have walked! No judge can force you to work. No backbone at the big D.

Didn't we lose the case dealing with overtime flying back in 2000? I think we did. They ruled we could not stop the status quo, and that meant flying greenslips, even during Xmas. Looks like they can force things upon us. You can quit though, if you don't like it. Now, we don't have to roll over and give away scope, but in BK and other situations, we will lose more often than we will win. At least the Obama administration is MORE union friendly than the Bush administration....


Bye Bye--General Lee