FlyinPiker said:I have no idea what kind of scope protection you have in place at PCL.
From Section 1.B.4:The Company will not create or control another airline for the purpose of transferring the assets of the Company to such airline and avoiding its obligations to the pilots of the Company under this Agreement.
The second certificate was originally created by the company in an effort to bid for 70-90 seat flying for an airline other than NWA. To avoid NWA scope language, a new certificate had to be created. If the flying is to be done for NWA after the relaxing of scope, then there is no need for the second cert. The flying could then be done on the Pinnacle cert. With the loss of revenue from NWA right now, it is expected that all expenditures on the second certificate are suspended indefinitely anyway. The Pinnacle BOD has stated that all unnecessary capital expenditures have been stopped. Even without the delay, the second cert is still at least 6-12 months from being ready for anything. Any 70 seat flying that becomes available will almost certainly be placed on the Pinnacle cert and flown by Pinnacle pilots.