You have a poor understanding of how a global airline needs to function. You also seem to assume that if we ended all the JV's we would do the flying ourselves. Route authorities, politics and economics would insure that never happens or even comes remotely close. Rumor is that our JV negotiations with the Chinese our not going well. If that goes south we are going to lose a bunch of planned international flying as well as all the passengers that would have been fed into our domestic system from China.