Originally Posted by
Gunga Din
You mean how AMR used Eagle to gut AA scope?
This industry is littered with examples of pilot groups who didn't know or care enough to take scope and codeshare seriously. I hope we are well past this now. You'd be hard pressed to find a pilot who would give an inch on relaxing scope. The real question is how much stronger must the wording be?
Well considering we have unlimited code sharing available to them right now anything would be stronger
Today they could sell all scheduled aircraft deliveries to Frontier. Any markets they were planning on using those planes for they would let frontier fly and then spirit would sell X number of tickets on that flight as Spirit flight 123 operated by frontier airlines.
Say Spirit wants markets in Europe but can't fill a A330 or 787. So they conspire with Ryanair to get the jets and operate them with their cheaper pilots and sell X amount of seats as spirit flight 123 operated by Ryan air flight 123.
Rinse and repeat to any domestic or foreign carrier. As the ULCC model proliferates it only makes sense to codeshare if they can make more money by not using their own jets and their own pilots (us).
Result: we stagnate at 76ish A320 family jets and 1300 pilots and no body gets furloughed. All legal in our current section 1
No merger necessary.