Originally Posted by
gloopy
Big time! This is currently a zero cost item for them. Limit Alaskan Air Line to the low water mark of what they are doing for us now. The previous code share abuse can and will return. Maybe not with RA and record profits, although even he loved the AS abuse not that long ago with (at the time) record profits.
All its going to take is for DL's EVP of West Coast Pilot Hiring Brad Tilden (who sometimes moonlights as the CEO of Alaskan Air Line) to change his mind and decide to play nice with DL and our domestic growth there will come to a screeching halt and likely reverse.
Time to lock it down and lock them out of ever growing to cancerous proportions in the DL network ever again (they can grow as much as they want on their own who cares).
You do a good job of making this point but just to be clear for the new guys that aren't aware, it wasn't our managements first choice to have Delta pilots doing the Delta flying out of Seattle. Delta management was ready to increase the outsourcing there had Alaska's Tilden agreed.
Even today, if Tilden changed his mind, all that juicy new flying out of SEA could vanish overnight. Don't believe it? We are still operating it as a "non hub" even though our management calls it a hub in the press. Let's not rely on the Alaska management to determine if we keep that flying. Let's lock in the hub status NOW and preserve our flying.
"Delta at one point offered for Alaska to exclusively feed its international flights, in return for Alaska not sharing flights with other international carriers, an offer that Alaska declined."
“We had conversations with Alaska over the years, about exclusivity on international routes,” Medeiros said. “We were looking to tighten that relationship, but that’s not something they were interested in doing. Since we had a good number of international flights, we decided to create a Seattle hub.”
Alaska, Delta downplay talk of any animosity, though both aggressively seek a bigger share of a lucrative market - Puget Sound Business Journal