Originally Posted by
notEnuf
We don't have a JV or production balance agreement with CEA yet. By the time we get to that point CEA will have over 800+ mainline airplanes with a wide-body international fleet twice the size of ours with B777-300, B787-900, and A350-900s. I'm sure we will be just fine with smaller jets and block hours as the new norm. ...Right?!
"China Eastern, which has an equity tie up with Delta Air Line, aims to increase its market share this year on China-U.S. routes to 17 percent of total seats available, from 11 percent in 2015, according to its president Ma Xunlun."
Oh and by the way.....CEA just had a board of directors meeting. I wonder if it was Mr. Anderson or Mr. Bastian that attended that meeting to vote on this new order approval. Oh never mind, it's an "observers" seat. I'm sure they had nothing to do with this. They just knew about it and watched CEA plan their U.S. expansion.
That's completely different from being an active participant. Just in case the SEC, DOT, or DOJ happen to cruise by the APC site.
Would it not be a scope violation to sell tickets on CEA under Delta flight numbers without abiding by the PWA? If not, then how does the PWA protect from any of this? Also if Delta makes a ton of money off this it is beneficial that the profit sharing stays the same instead of getting reduced.
I believe we need the widebodies at Delta, I just think the TA15 could have made this worse with the block hour change and at least it is by seat mile still. If they can get around the PWA by selling Delta tickets on an unlimited CEA flights without any Delta flights, then that is a problem too.