Old 05-09-2012 | 04:35 AM
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Originally Posted by Clear Right
Full disclosure up front, I'm a B6 guy. Let's just say hypothetically AMR can't afford to buy JetBlue and they want to increase revenue by feeding their international market in JFK. They can't increase their domestic traffic at JFK because it is slot restricted. They can't add the Delta swarm of RJs at JFK because again they have no more slots, what's the problem with a B6 Codeshare at JFK alone to add high dollar revenue for AMR. Couldn't you put some scope restrictions on JFK with regard to a B6 partnership and increase your international feed...just saying, aren't you restricting profits when you can't organically grow your AMR traffic due to slot restrictions, but you could add revenue with a well defined Codeshare.
AA doesn't make any real revenue on a Codeshare flight. Revenue isn't shared like in the BA/AA joint venture agreement.

If B6 did all the domestic connections for JFK then that would free up a bunch of AA slots that they could use for international expansion, but overall I agree with eaglefly and it could be a bad situation for AA/AE domestic ops in JFK
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