Originally Posted by
FlyASA
The companies RAH owns flies for majors, so unless RAH keeps Midwest and Frontier on seperate seniority lists (can they do that or do they have to merge lists?) they'll have a serious conflict of issue. It might be a spirt of the law vs. letter of the law debate but with good enough laweyers a judge could find RAH in violation of their contracts with their major partners. After all this is America.
You can argue all the legal technicalities you want but when you get down to it RAH is biting the hand that feeds it and thus there could be some serious ramifications.
It has been said many times on this board, RAH is a holdings company that owns three (soon to be five) other companies. The agreements with United, for example are with Chautauqua Airlines, Inc., and Shuttle America Corp., and not with Republic Airlines, Inc. If Republic Airlines Inc. operates flights dba (doing business as) Frontier Airlines or Midwest Airlines, then there is no violation of any contract. Republic Airlines, Inc. is not even mentioned in the contracts.