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NERD
Acl, Sailing, Bar, anyone. What in our current/TA scope would/does prevent a scope end around through Alaska's or "The Reverend" or any other subcontractor from flying directly for skyteam?
RAH flies to NYC on their code, then connects to a AF flight. I cannot find anything that precludes this from happening.
ALK does it now if someone flies say SEA-LAX-SYD. ALK to LAX then Virgin Australia to SYD. If I recall the ticket can be booked on DAL.com but I do believe the DAL code is used and falls under our Section 1. They can also book on the ALK site and not use our code. Also say Frontier F9 code to ATL then the Korean Air flight to ICN. It cannot be booked on our site without a DAL code attached to the KAL flight so the itinerary would not show up.
On the RAH one it would have to be RAH code, which would be Frontier, then AF. I am not sure AF and RAH have an interline agreement so this sort of paring would not show up on the AF computer network, but it would on internet travel sites.
Within Section one it does not preclude a contractor for code sharing with Skyteam as long it was their code, and not our code.
Again, this was my take two years ago, and I have not been told wrong. Still looking at the TAed new book.