Originally Posted by
SmitteyB
Scope is everything.
Why is it that no negotiating capital is being spent on tightening scope? Why must the position be "can't budge"?
Why not make ATL budge and recapture that scope? It's like running a race and shooting to finish second.
It's the same mistakes over and over at our mainline carriers. Forgetting scope to capture the highest hourly rates for bragging rights. What am I missing?
Complicating the issue, is the fact that some of the regionals actually own a piece of Delta's market share. If they give that flying up, it goes back to the government for re-bid, thus due to anti-trust, Delta potentially loses that market share forever. Those gates owned by Skywest in ATL are a big deal, you could move a whole new airline in there with that number of gates.