Originally Posted by BeatNavy

We can codeshare on horizon or SkyWest planes under the Alaska code if we codeshared with them. Doesn’t have to be a CPA/FFD agreement. The idea with codesharing isn’t necessarily to make a lot of profit from a route. It’s to get customers on our planes from markets we don’t serve with little to no risk. It’s market access with no investment or cost. Then they connect on us and we make money that way. We get intl customers on our flights that way. With domestic codesharing, we can access west coast markets via Alaska and their CPAs with SKW and Horizon if we codeshared with them. How is that a good thing? That is incentive to not spend the money to grow organically into those markets.

Why was SWAPA so loud when SWA mgmt started privately discussing possible codeshares? Read this article and then tell me if you still think codesharing is harmless, and if so, how you came to that conclusion...I’m genuinely curious and want to know how it’s not a threat to growth.
https://www.bizjournals.com/chicago/...share-and.html



International or routes we can’t fly is one thing. Like cape...I don’t care about a small piston plane flying on our code with pax getting on our flights. We have nothing that can effectively fly those routes that cape has codeshared with us. Ditto for international (until we get the capability, which I wish had more controls to end codeshares if we can fly the routes with new planes).

I’ve read the TA scope section probably 30-40 times, read the FAQs, and still don’t see how essentially unlimited domestic codeshares is a good (or even okay) thing. 1% growth? 1 block hour per year? 1 pilot added to the list a year. That’s our controls put in place? I’m not sold.