Originally Posted by
C11DCA
Others have already pointed out your lack of knowledge of the history and backstories of the events you claim are examples of Democratic indifference towards airlines and unions.
Regarding DC-Dubai, the awarding of the government flying to JetBlue/Emirates followed the law/regulations. The law/regulations that the majors had previously lobbied to have adjusted to include their codeshare/alliance partners. It was a competitive bid and Jetblue was selected. It had a cheaper airfare and its overall application was scored higher then UAL's. Don't you want your government to spend your tax dollars wisely?
Here is the Protest denial:
U.S. GAO - United Airlines, Inc.
How come no one complains that UAL won the award for ATL-FRA? UAL certainly doesn't fly that route with its own metal, it is flown on Lufthansa.
https://cpsearch.fas.gsa.gov/cpsearc...r=Search+FY+17
And while losing the GSA award on that route hurt the bottom line of UAL, I'm not convinced it wouldn't have dropped it anyways. From a war time, monopoly route that made $$$ to a route where the war ended and thus government travel was down and now you also had three other carriers flying that market (the ME3).
Ask a JetBlue ALPA member if they support codeshare with Emirates .. they'll either be truthful and say yes, or lie and say no. They WANT the ME codeshares since they lack the international feed. Therein lies the problem with lobbying this issue. Ask Boeing Union members if they want NAI .. more 787's, more jobs, no brainer. Ask Delta if they want ATC modernization for better slot management in the Northeast. They don't care about that so much .. it'd help United more than them and they don't want that.
This is the problem with pseudo-deregulation. Everyone still has to rely on their man in Washington to get an advantage. That's great until someone else presents a better bargain to the man in Washington. What can you do at that point, complain that your competitors' payoffs were larger than yours?