Originally Posted by
FIIGMO
Code Sharing is HUGE!!!
SKYW for a vast majority of their property and ground equipment own everything or control their leases (the dixie college boys with their funny underwear and puffy hairdo wives are not dumb). Maybe not the aircraft but everything else.
So they now they decide well in certain markets or city pairs we will operate our own brand flying say a 100 seat C series. Then DAL AMR UAL can then just code share with us and they get the 100 seat feed we get access to say a nice SABRE res system which costs will be subsidized by the mainline and magically the jobs shift!
Scope is great to focus on but But Alaska, Skywest et all can operate a c-series and fly their brand and code share with the legacy! let's not lose sight of this fact when we are distracted by scope only! This is where language needs to be rock solid for any union....... Including SWA (what is SWA scope Language?))
Just sayin......
I don't separate the two. Code sharing is a large part of scope. If (really when) SKYW's ego gets the better of them we need to go all in and euthanize them no matter how much it costs until only one of us is standing. If its them, so be it (but I'm pretty sure it won't be).