Originally Posted by
sleeves
Best in the Industry? You ever heard of Southwest?.
Your measurement of scope is obviously "what size airplanes can your code share partner fly". So you measured the old 50 seat limit for jets at CAL, ignoring that they could fly larger turboprops that carried 78 people (Q-400) and Southwest. Well Southwest is an all guppy airline. They don't need feed because they don't service small communities. Southwest isn't flying passengers from numerous smaller markets to SFO to put them on a 747 to Sydney Australia. They service large cities in the US. Most express flights service small cities.
Also, pre merger, CAL code shared with United, so you were ok with United flying 747s and 777s with CAL passengers on them, but then you have a problem with 76 seat jets?
You have a very myopic view of what scope is. Right now, for major airlines, United has the best protections. Ask the experts and learn, and please quit making very simple observations about something that you are unfamiliar with as a whole. To me this is like passengers explaining turbulent as "air pockets". It shows me they don't understand.