Originally Posted by
scambo1
We have planes we fly them places. We have a contract that theoretically has protections. If dal wants to fly more to haneda than to Narita, that's their choice. They lose a code share partner. If they want to keep the codeshare partner, they fly to Narita. They can add haneda when the lightning fast network guys sort it out.
Also with all due respect, and I haven't seen the LOA either, that makes no sense. If I understand Alfa correctly, the codeshare partners carry 15 pax/day. The penalty for being in non-compliance with the current, weak protections, is almost no pain to the company. On the other hand, they can't kill NRT fast, but it's going to be disadvantaged to be sure. NRT is like operating out of ALB to serve New York, and the government just opened up JFK for international traffic, and we don't have JFK slots. It doesn't take much guesswork to imagine the process. Step 1, you downgauge to keep frequencies, Step 2 you build a NRT bypass network to the major cities, minus those that had incremental pax from Japan to make the route viable, Step 3, you start shrinking NRT.
If they want to expand the codeshare with their partner outside those parameters, we have leverage.
Explain the nature of our leverage. I'm not being a smart-ass. Let's just say we don't work something out. What's the leverage?
If they want to pull out of Narita altogether to prove they are tough, they'll be on the street tomorrow. If they can expand haneda, I'm behind them 100 percent.
OK.
It's only a zero sum game if we give up slots to enable them a greater option to codeshare.
Again, not being a smart-ass, and I don't have the LOA. I haven't heard anything about expanding codeshares. I think they would probably need to do something, to gain more HND access, but I haven't read anything about it.