Those that say they aren't worried about domestic codesharing simply don't understand the threat.

I'm not saying vote NO because of it, but I am saying to understand the true nature of the threat and acknowledge it exists.

Delta, for years, maintained a significant domestic codeshare with Alaska out of Seattle. Many Delta pilots we're VERY unhappy with the arrangement because all of the Pacific Northwest Delta commuters were watching Delta sell all these seats on to Alaska aircraft while maintaining a small senior Seattle base for Delta and most of those Delta guys having to commute to SLC, MSP, DTW or NYC. Delta management loved the arrangement because they got to sell connections on to a significant PCNW network that they didn't have to spend billions to develop themselves. Delta wanted to continue this arrangement which harmed Delta mainline pilots but became frustrated that Alaska was also codesharing with AA out of SEA. So DL gave Alaska an ultimatum, either codeshare exclusively with DL out of SEA or we will build our own SEA hub.

Well, you know the results, Delta pilots that live out West are huge winners now that the company built it's own SEA hub.

How does this apply to us?

Well, we have an east coast Airline with no network in the middle of the country and now with our announced reductions in intra-westcoast flying, no West coast network. We fly people to and from the west coast, but no West coast network.

We have been trying to find a way to build a west coast network, but have so far failed miserably. There are NO gates at any of the desirable airports.

Both Alaska and JB are being targeted by emboldened legacy carriers on both coasts, and unlike AK and JB, they can offer valuable business corporate accounts a FULL domestic network.

There is a very real possibility that JB and AK solve this problem with a large, mutually beneficial (for the airlines) large domestic codeshare.

And the same is potentially true for Moxy with there new C300 jets, as well as JetSuiteX.

If you really want to understand the threat, go ask about it in the APC Delta forum. This is the one area of our TA where we are absolutely NOT protected.

I'm not suggesting that we would furlough pilots or anything stupid like that. I'm not saying they are going to take our existing flying, that's just stupid. But, we may very well, and I think those chances are presently increasing, begin a large domestic codeshare with Alaska IN LIEU of building our own organic west coast network.

Not saying vote NO. Not saying doom and destruction. But understand the nature of the threat and stop telling the few of us that have concerns that it doesn't exist.

There are recent historical examples DL-AK, AA-AK, I think NWA-Continental. The PILOTS of those Airlines didn't like it because it reduced the airlines need to organically grow network relevance.

BD