E8: Scope is Dope: How It Affects Everyone & The Need for a Global Scope Agreement

Whether you've been a Delta pilot for 30 days or 30 years, scope affects you daily. It affects the industry. It affects your seniority. It affects the seat you hold, the airplane you fly. If you feel stuck on a fleet, seat, or base you didn't want, scope has impacted you. And if you've ever walked by a gate with a foreign carrier boarding Delta passengers from a hub to an international city and wondered why Delta pilots aren't flying that route, scope affects you. Nick Hoefer and George Strehlow (Scope Compliance & Analysis Committee) sit down with host Ryan Argenta to explain our current scope clause, how the surge in Delta's appetite for joint ventures and ownership in foreign carriers impacts everyone, and the need for updated scope language in our contract to include a modernized global scope agreement. A must-listen episode for all pilots as we enter negotiations on global scope and the need to protect and preserve the "currency" that is our seniority and our careers. (Recorded March 10, 2022 in Atlanta, GA) Like what you're hearing? Have a suggestion for a future episode or have a question you'd like answered "on air"? Send us a DART at dart.alpa.org. You have questions, we want answers.