Come on Kevin!!
Everything you have written actually makes sense. The problem is that you have not answered the question about Scope, and how it is REALLY going to affect us here in BACX.
Sounds to me as though we at BACX are being sacrificed on the altar of your collective ambition.
I have an idea! Why don't BA end the leases on the RJs, and hand them back to BAe. The current BA pilots can all go and fly whatever and wherever they want - in mainline. Then BACX can lease the RJs at a much more competitive rate, and go where and when we want with them. Hey, I could develop this theme into 73s and all sorts of other aircraft, maybe I should suggest it to David Evans, Tim de la Fosse and Rob Hearn - trouble is, being BA themselves, they wouldn't understand the concept of operating profitable services.
Maybe, just maybe, (obviously following a successful interview and checkride) we'd allow mainline pilots to join our operation!
