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Originally Posted by Chris_Ford

Okay, let's try this again.

You run an airline. You have a new contract with an airline that will require you to startup a new certificate due to scope issues.

Why don't you just operate it like RP/S5/CQ? Why do you opt, instead, to have a SEPARATE pilot group, if the reasoning isn't "to get around the pilot contract"...

Uh, because your pilots refuse to negotiate in good faith? Holas tried to go the RP/S5/CQ route, but the TSA pilots shut him down. At some point you cut your losses and say "you guys had your chance...5 of them, in fact."

I can't always automatically side with the pilots; some people are just hell-bent on their own destruction (see JTrain's sig), then act surprised when it happens.