Originally Posted by Qotsaautopilot

Pro:
broader definition of codesharing
Furlough protection based seniority list pilot to add no reduction in block hours on rolling 12 calendar months previous to the codeshare agreement.

CON:
Spirit pilots must participate in the agreement. This is being sold as an improvement but it seems to mean nothing.

Ex: Spirit wants to sell tickets to Europe. It enters into a codeshare agreement with Norwegian to move passengers to Europe. As Norwegian grows to as many destinations as they want because they were not denied open skies. They can fly as many Spirit passengers to as many destinations as the codeshare agreement allows. Spirit pilots are “participating” because we are connecting passengers through our current network.

No restrictions of a number of flights, block hours, city pairs, or if adding codeshare flights Spirit pilots have to have flights added on the same routes or the same block hours on similar aircraft.

I used Norwegian as the example because it seems the most likely and also the worst scenario because of the flag of convenience threat they pose to the entire industry if they don’t die on the vine, but it could be any carrier. South American, Asian, etc. Even frontier. They fly to a lot of places we don’t already.

DEFINE PARTICIPATE!!!!!