Originally Posted by gloopy

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.