Originally Posted by
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I think I get it now, we've adopted the Coca-Cola Company's business model:
The Coca-Cola Company produces concentrate, which is then sold to licensed Coca-Cola bottlers throughout the world. The bottlers, who hold territorially exclusive contracts with the company, produce finished product in cans and bottles from the concentrate in combination with filtered water and sweeteners. The bottlers then sell, distribute and merchandise Coca-Cola to retail stores and vending machines. Such bottlers include Coca-Cola Enterprises, which is the largest single Coca-Cola bottler in North America and western Europe. The Coca-Cola Company also sells concentrate for soda fountains to major restaurants and food service distributors.
So change a few words:
The Delta Air Lines Company produces concentrate, which is then sold to licensed Airline "bottlers" throughout the country and the world via special marketing agreements. The bottlers, who once held territorially exclusive contracts with the company, produce finished product in tin cans and long uncomfortable metal bottles from the concentrate in combination with potable water and biscoff cookies. The airlinesthen distribute and merchandise Delta to customers via their similar painted vending machines. Such bottlers include Delta Air Lines, which is the largest single "Delta Air Lines" bottler in North America and western Europe...and Eastern Europe, Asia, Africa, Austrailia, etc..
^^^^ I still think that scheme is coming to the entire fleet one day.
Gotta love 24R....
The small print says China Airlines, we wouldn't want a Delta jet flying there from LA would we... ;-)
Gotta disagree on the alliances going forward.
Emirates, Quatar and Etihad aren't in any alliance and are doing just fine, in fact they are cleaning most other international airlines' clock...
The threat going forward is more in the JVs and "enhanced" codeshare agreements, than in the alliance assuming the role of the air carrier.
LH has done well controlling Swiss and Austrian. AIRFRANCE kept the KLM brand. The brands will prevail as ticket sellers, but the flights will be operated by any number of operators.
Look who JB is going to codeshare with:
Regulations.gov
JetBlue Airways Corporation ("JetBlue") recently entered into an agreement with
Emirates ("EK") which contemplates that JetBlue will place EK's EK* designator code on
JetBlue's flights between points in the United States for the purpose of transporting passengers to
and from points served by JetBlue as provided in the Codeshare Agreement between Emirates
and JetBlue Airways Corporation (Codeshare Agreement).1 JetBlue therefore respectfully
requests that the Department of Transportation ("Department" or "DOT") issue a blanket
Statement of Authorization under Part2l2 of the Department's regulations to permit JetBlue to
display EK's EK* designator code in conjunction with foreign air transportation of persons,
property and mail on routings involving the United States and the United Arab Emirates on
JetBlue's flights (a) between any points in the United States and (b) between any point or points
in the United States and any point or points in third countries that have Open Skies Agreements
A copy of the Codeshare Agreement is attached hereto as Exhibit l.
with the United States. A list of the initial code-sharing routes is attached hereto as Exhibit 2.2
JetBlue and Emirates plan to initiate the proposed codeshare services on the routes listed in
Exhibit 2 on or about May l, 2012.3
At LAX the Virgin Australia codeshare is about to become a revenue sharing JV without the pesky alliance stuff... Oh and guess who has a codeshare agreement with VA? You guessed it, Emirates...
So the future is more likely to hold more codeshares and JVs, where our Section 1 permits just about anything in exchange for 4 flights a week and a cap of 175 seats...
We're a cheap date ;-)
Cheers
George