Originally Posted by Bill Lumberg

How about using Air France and KLM, since they are our closest JV partners? We do the same thing they do, flying a lot of the same overlapping routes. We don't have as many widebodies, but it's a start.

I disagee about not using SWA. They are buying Airtran, a hub and spoke carrier, and they will get the SWA wages too. They may ditch some of the Airtran practices, like redeyes, but overall they will be increasing SWA's costs via the merger, and that brings them up to our level. They aren't a LCC anymore.