I agree, but it's far from a "no cost item." If jetBlue pilots fly it, it'll cost the company more than if they just tossed their code on another carrier that had their people fly it. I imagine they, like just about every other airline in history, will fight tooth and nail on scope. The thing to remember is once the cat's out of the bag, it's hard to get it back in. Just look at Delta and the 76 seat flying. Those guys back in the 90s would think you were nuts if you told them an RJ would be flying almost all of their CVG routes. Those were mainline MD-88s at the time. Northwest had the same issues outta DTW with DC-9s. Suddenly, those all became CRJ-200s. Good luck getting that flying back at mainline now. So, we've absolutely got to draw a line in the sand here and now, but I don't expect the company to just give it to us.

What REALLY gets me is Azul starting Brazil-US routes. THAT is a market we shoulda/coulda gotten in to first and codeshared with THEM to connect intra-Brazil routes. Dollars to donuts it's gonna go the other way now.

As for management knowing what we want, they already do. Unless no one listened at ALL during the calls on the PEA and during the union drive.