Originally Posted by
ShyGuy
What are you saying? They are going to put Delta out of business and operate LGA to DTW on 777s?
You're blurring the point trying to talk about short hop domestic cabotage. But I do think they would love that. Not 1 hour flight stuff (at least for a while…they'd be more than content using locals for that rubbish for a while). But they would love to do NYC/BOS/ATL/DC-LA/SF/SEA, etc. Even that is deep into the next phase of their egotistical manifest destiny.
First they want to put the thin end of the wedge into a couple markets (like MXP-JFK) and then hammer away route by route.
But hey in exchange we can fly to DXB! Yay!
Do you really value your "area code" number so much that you'd endorse something like that just to get the seniority advancement from a few code share scraps?