Originally Posted by
captjns
Perhaps the anti Norwegian folks should be banging on the doors of their own airlines as well as ALPA. The 3 legacies are guilty of use it carriers from Asia, Europe, operating out of U.S. airports, out sourcing, in the name of code sharing. Passengers flying on foreign metal, lower labor and operating costs. So.... where are the objections?
One of my favorite screeens shots is... “Who’s operating my flight?
You may not like Norwegian, but at least you know the airline.
Codeshare is a way of limiting the number of flights between city pairs to the benefit of airlines in both countries.
As an example, ORD-FRA on 10 Jan. There are 3 nonstops between LH and UA. UA flies 2 and LH flies one. If there were no codeshare, it's likely that both airlines would operate additional flights between the city pairs, driving down revenues to the point where the route would, at best, be marginally profitable.
I don't know about AA or DL contracts but a section of United's pilot agreement has codeshare limitations... 1-C-3 Foreign Air Carrier Code Share Agreements
Are you actually trying to suggest that only US carriers should be flying internationally if one of the city pairs is in the US? Or are you naively suggesting that codesharing be eliminated, which would cause a glut of seats flown internationally, driving down airline revenues and eventually pilot wages?