Originally Posted by LeineLodge

Similar to what 80 said, I had our codeshare committee chairman explain that part to me earlier. I highly respect his opinion as he has lived these numbers in greater detail that I ever want to - by "not so bad" I meant that it seemed more or less the same result as what we currently have, just a different metric to measure the same flying. Part of the rationale was that as we upguage to 330's from ER's some of the EASK deficit would go away, and also something about how we augment and the euros don't. I'm not willing to write that section off until I understand it better.

This is all moot if the reps don't ratify it. We'll see tomorrow if they even get through all the material - which they had barely begun to do this afternoon by 6pm...