Originally Posted by
poostain
You are correct about any future agreements in relation to the SEA "hub". I think that is very important going forward. The Alaska agreement goes away 100% as soon as AS and VA consummate their marriage. I am just speculating that we couldn't get the language removed because of the unknown time line for their hookup. I get the fear that in a downturn we could undo all we've done to build SEA but IMHO that ship has sailed. I expect the language will be easily removed next time we meet at the table or in an LOA, question is....at what cost?
At zero cost. We simply attach it to any of their "concerns" that we're willing to address at any level. It costs them zero dollars. If they refuse, we tell the pilot group that the company has clear intentions of gutting SEA again in the future, because that is the ONLY reason they'd ever want it to remain.
As for the AS/VX merger, where is it written in stone that the merger of a medium sized national with a small LCC will force the end of our part of the code share? Other than maybe a tiny number of routes, I doubt the DOT/DOJ even cares.