Originally Posted by
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That's my question, we're a small WB airline and the JV partners seem to be a super premium WB airlines. My understanding was that's fine, 1 of theirs crossing the ocean is 2 planes for our pilots and a win.
Now, a A380 crossing = 752 crossing? Seems like we'd lose a huge amount of flying, or as george says, 20%. I go with George.
Obviously we lose when you switch from Seat Miles to Block Hours, because as you point out, we have 'smaller' international jets. With the Seat Mile metric, Delta has to fly MORE (2X) air frames across the pond to break even with our JV partners 747's, A380's and 777-300's. With the Block Hour metric, all they have to do is put one 757 'match' an A380 or 777 JV flight.
Epic FAIL in JV Scope!
