Originally Posted by
acl65pilot
What was drilled in to my head and I finally accepted is that these customers, and routes that AS flies, are not generally profitable for DAL, or could not be sustained.
Like 9 (or is it more?) flights a day LAX-SEA? We can't do several of those? We can't do ONE of those? Really?
Like 2 BOS-SEA? We can't do one of those?
Like LAX-SFO and many others? We can't do any of those?
I get that the over all AK code share feeds our network and I also get that it wouldn't work to instantly capacity dump an entire duplicate route system with our own planes. Some of the stuff they do is truly niche like flying that we would never do especially at the mainline. But the code share over all is flat out being abused. CBA compliant? Sure, unfortunately. But we should prioritize making appropriate changes in C12K that reigns in the abuse. Some of their flying we can clearly be doing ourselves. The code share we allowed provides too much leeway and its time to reign it in.
I wonder if we have to "meet and confer" with AK if we tighten up that code share too?