Originally Posted by
trustbutverify
And the other airlines would be wrong to think that. US population is around 345 mil. The population of all three representative regions for the JV partners is about 144 mil, for all three combined. Those numbers represent the revenue pool each brings to the table.
These are European carriers. The EU population is 509 million. This isn't a deal for flying to France, Italy, and Holland.
Using population, we should get ~40% of the flying.
Seems like a self-defeating argument.