Originally Posted by
Baradium
I fully understand it. I am explaining why all this talk about never being released even if Alaska is makes no sense. We may be big, but we don't shut the country down if we stop flying. Alaska is one of the only ways into and out of some places q
and a significant source of supplies to areas that you can't drive to. There is much more reason to stop a strike by them than us.
We operate roughly 20% of domestic flights. If we stop flying it would cripple interstate commerce which is why the RLA was created in the first place. A few small communities losing air service due to a strike doesn't cripple interstate commerce. Sure, it negatively impacts those small communities but the RLA and NMB don't look at that. They look at the overall picture. If what you are saying was true then no regional airline would ever be allowed to go on strike and obviously we all know that's not the case.