What does that even mean?

Are you talking like which Flight Attendants they hire? Or how many planes they paint pink during October? You're getting really esoteric here. We are a pilot's union, therefore we only concern ourselves with pilot stuff. I guess the company can decide to pull out of a profitable market without our permission or something. Is what what you're trying to get at? Actually, even then that may or may not be allowed such as in cases of certain international agreements, or even agreements with regionals. We have absolutely no say on what brand of peanuts they serve though, so if that's what you mean, you're right about that.

I'm just referring to what pilots they use to actually fly the code. Its us, always, unless its part of our permitted exceptions. When DL code gets put on a flight, we own it, unless we have allowed to include it in a specific exception. I guess if they put the code on a line of SuperFake Rolex's on Canal Street, there wouldn't be much we could do about that, so you may have a point here. But if they want to fly the code, they have to come to us.