Originally Posted by
Schwanker
Well didn't the PWA require 316(?) departures in NRT? Up until a couple years ago when we gave that away. At the time, if we didn't keep the departures, the code sharing had to stop. Was that a good move on our part? Did we lose NRT flying?
Pilot ignorance is amazing. The contract required we maintain 316 departures out of Narita only if the company maintained one small code share into Narita. That code share was generating about 250,000 a year in revenue! If the company dropped the code share we had zero protections for the Narita flying. Zero as in none. We were able to trade that for Pacific wide protections. Even Bill Bartels was touting that agreement as a significant acheivment of the Roberts administration. Strangely however he voted against it while touting it as a great deal for the pilots.
"""The existing Section 1 E. 2. prohibits code share on Fifth Freedom flights from Japan to Asian cities beyond Japan unless 316 weekly NRT slots are utilized. The 316 slots protected 80 percent of the slots that were in use when this provision was negotiated in 1998."""