Scope?

poser765

poser765

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Ok I am so new to this airline/union thing I haven't even started class yet. However, with that said I am trying to follow a lot of these discussions and my lack of knowledge of union lexicon is disgusting.

With that said, would someone please take a second and explain to me what Scope is? It's come up a bit the last two days and I THOUGHT I could figure it out but I'm starting to think I had it in the wrong context.

Thanks.
 
Scope, as I understand it, is the "scope of the business" pertaining to type of flying, number and types of aircraft, number of seats per aircraft and a whole host of other things that the Major Airline partner can farm out to their regional airlines based on agreements made between major pilots and management. When people refer to unions giving up scope, they are saying that the Major Airline pilots decided they would allow their airline to farm out flying of aircraft under 96 seats, or the number of regional aircraft that can operate on a typically major airline route under a code share agreement. (code share=when you want to get from NY-LA and you book a flight on American but will fly from NY to PHL on a regional jet then from PHL to LAX on an American 767 but the flights are conducted under American flight numbers even though you are on two different airlines.) I made that pairing up, I am fairly certain that is not a possibility.

Others can expand upon this and give reason why a group would allow this.
 
Scope, in a very short answer, answers the question of:


"What is the scope of this collective bargaining agreement [i.e. "contract"]?"​


The scope section will answer that question in a few different avenues.

It might implicitly state that all flying done for a certain brand will be flown by the pilots of this particular pilot contract, as long as the planes have ## seats or more.

It might also make a weight restriction in addition to that seat restriction, such as "all flights under this brand that are flown with an aircraft that is capable of taking off at 50,000 pounds or more will be flown by the pilots in this contract."

It could also break it down by type of airplane, by saying all jets will be flown by these pilots while no restrictions are placed on turboprops.

Regions and codeshares are also relevant. A scope section could outlaw codesharing altogether, or set limits on them such as saying they may not exceed 3% of the total available seat miles bookable by a passenger on a brand, etc.

So, that is a very short and simple answer.
 
Thanks guys. I guess I wasn't too far off of my initial understanding. Thanks to you both. Now back to regularly scheduled programming.
 
poser765 said:
Now back to regularly scheduled programming.
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