Originally Posted by
cesnacaptn
Neither your posts, nor the articles you linked to show Alaska making more money from codeshares than with their own metal.
The article you quoted says the airline will lose out on $15M-$20M in revenue out of $5B+. You don't need to challenge "who's side I'm on." I'm just trying to make sure I have as much information as possible. If Alaska makes most of their money through codesharing, I wanted to see the info with my eyes.
Here is another article
"While the concessions covering the “codeshare” agreement with American represent a revenue loss of about $60 million a year, the airline believes it will recapture 70 percent of that
through its own passengers for a final negative impact of about $15 million to $20 million, Alaska Air said. The codeshare concessions involve 45 markets, the company said."
So they make more money on those routes through codeshares than they would flying their own passengers own their own planes.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-12-06/alaska-air-wins-u-s-approval-for-virgin-america-takeover
My whole point was we need to make a strong scope clause a priority in addition to pay and retirement.
Here is the justice department ruling
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-requires-alaska-airlines-significantly-scale-back-codeshare-agreement
The five links on the bottom provide a lot of useful information regarding the ruling.
Between reading Alaskas intital intentions regarding the merger, staring at many RJ orders and seeing how management is conducting themselves in TPA negotiations Im not optimistic about our future. Now is the time for unity.