Originally Posted by
Bluedriver
Thanks for telling me nothing of any importance.
I said DL, UAL, AA, Alaska and Hawaiian all have significant codesharing. I also said ALPA doesn't prevent codesharing (read the first sentence again).
How are EITHER of those statements incorrect???
I want a CBA, but we WILL have codesharing in a CBA, just as EVERY other carrier (all union, most ALPA) that I named above.
No one's talking about PREVENTING them except you. We're talking about putting the handcuffs on them so we don't get hosed out of jobs in the name of revenue and profits. I have no problem code sharing with most of our international partners as I don't see us ever flying from JFK or BOS to Dubai. It's the domestic routes that have me concerned. I COULD see us doing LGB-HNL if we got bigger aircraft. But it's cheaper to codeshare with Hawaiian. We COULD start service into Midwestern markets, but it's cheaper to codeshare with American. Hence the reason we need to keep restrictions in place.