Originally Posted by
Car Ramrod
Delta code shares with Air France, Aeromexico, Alitalia, China Eastern, China Southern, KLM, Korean Air, Virgin Atlantic plus about a dozen more. The other legacies have many code share partners. Of course I would like all international flying to/from the USA to be done by Spirit pilots, but how would a code share with WOW be any different than what the Legacy airlines do? If the legacy pilot contracts allow it, how can we expect to get better scope provisions than them?
Not trying to flame, just asking a serious question. I assume the legacy contracts don't allow free reign of code shares and the partners are limited to a percentage of overall international flying? Even still that would not rule out a code share with any of the ULCC international companies.
The legacies have strict limits on codesharing. We have unlimited codesharing. In some cases those companies are also required to add company flying equal in block hours when they add codeshare block hours. We have no limits, zero. They could literally codesharing out all future flying. All 320s in order would be sold to frontier and any future widebody flying to those doing it already or an airline that doesn't exist yet. Who knows maybe they wouldn't but the point is that they can without any limitation except to keep those of us already in the seniority list. Stagnation forever and shrink as people leave or retire.
Jetblue obviously didn't have a union and had no codesharing limitations. They codeshare with Lufthansa, Azul, Hawaiian, Emerites, cape air, and some others I think. How many jobs is that and how many widebody jobs for that matter?