Originally Posted by
Kellwolf
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.
It is notably inferred by benz and his goons that a union would prevent codesharing. Read one of his last posts. He says a union couldn't prevent codeshares, but then says that ALPA could give us the resources to prevent codeshares (at least that is what he seems to infer).
The problem with both your arguments is history.
I am not saying that it wouldn't help, but it will not be our codeshare savior.
We are going to grow, even with the codeshares. You mention American. They want to codeshare with us. We can either codeshare with them, get the revenue from it, and continue to expand into OTHER cities. Or, we could say NO, and be forced to start those new routes ourselves, while competing in a fare war with the new AA on those routes. And those new routes that we have to do battle on, are planes that can't be used to start other routes that could have been more profitable...
You guys that think that we should just deny any codesharing because it would force us to fly to Hawaii, or Dublin, or wherever are delusional. It won't. All it will do is limit our revenue that could be used to start flying other places. It WON'T make them order 100 more new planes so that we can fly those routes ourselves.... If we aren't ready yet, we aren't ready yet.
Personally, I would rather codeshare with AA on routes that we don't have to start an all-out war, and use those revenues to start new routes to other places where we don't have to have a fare war.