{"id":2075,"date":"2006-01-05T09:30:23","date_gmt":"2006-01-05T09:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=2075"},"modified":"2006-01-05T09:30:23","modified_gmt":"2006-01-05T09:30:23","slug":"northwests_pilo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=2075","title":{"rendered":"Northwest&#8217;s Pilot Scope Clause Contract Negotiations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/4536\/1880\/1600\/981514.jpg\"><br \/>Sort of an abstract issue, but relevant for Madison, particularly with the growth of 50 to 100 seat aircraft in and out of Madison<\/p>\n<p>: <a href=\"http:\/\/enplaned.blogspot.com\/2006\/01\/northwest-why-scope-matters-so-much.html\"><P>Interesting look<\/a> at labor issues for Madison&#8217;s #1 air carrier:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Northwest&#8217;s scope clause is, in fact, particularly onerous relative to scope clauses at other major airlines. United, Delta, American &#038; US Airways can outsource (to regional airlines) aircraft up to at least 70 seats (US Airways can even outsource some aircraft of 86 seats). Continental&#8217;s limit is 59 seats, but can do a virtually unlimited number of those.<\/P><\/p>\n<p>The issue at Northwest is particularly acute because Northwest flies smaller mainline aircraft than any other major airline. Northwest itself flies over 100 DC-9s (photo above). These geriatric aircraft (many of them over 30 years old or more) have just over 100 seats. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.airliners.net\/info\/stats.main?id=276\">Click here for further DC-9 data<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sort of an abstract issue, but relevant for Madison, particularly with the growth of 50 to 100 seat aircraft in and out of Madison : Interesting look at labor issues for Madison&#8217;s #1 air carrier: Northwest&#8217;s scope clause is, in fact, particularly onerous relative to scope clauses at other major airlines. United, Delta, American &#038; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2075"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2075\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}