Originally Posted by
Bucking Bar
I'd do it.
It's more fun that sitting there doing position reports for 6 hours and I can't run enough to not gain weight with some of the yummy food that comes through the door.
Oh I would too. I just meant that on most of their exclusive routes our marketing likely wouldn't ever add capacity on top of them because unless one of us blinked and cancelled their service, yields would be trashed. Ergo if we didn't CS with AS (mostly Horizon) then many of those markets just wouldn't be in our network unless we got really agressive, which we have shown little to no sign of doing with few rare exceptions. The majority of the AS CS is just yield preserving capacity gifting to a competitor in a relentless persuit of YoY/QoQ numbers.
I'm sure you were making a point about some internal mentalities about being "above" certain kinds of flying (particularly seat ranges) and to that extent I would agree with you; flying is flying and I'm in favor of working to get more DL flying done by DL seniority list pilots.