Originally Posted by
Superpilot92
I have to agree with this. The mainline partners will likely dump Republic/shuttle/chautauqua because of this and thus eliminate the guaranteed profits.
Do you really think a saavy businessman like Brian Bedford would elect to go down this path if it were to put his revenue gravy train at risk? A more likely situation is he knew one or more codeshares were going to shrink or disappear before the end of 2009 and he's hedging his bets to provide some value for RJET shareholders (which is his job).
Its likely going to end up like Indy air and XJT, especially in this operating environment.
Frontier as it currently exists is already semi-profitable; if nothing else in their current form they can take advantage of RP's economies of scale and available credit to help lower their costs further.