Originally Posted by
ScaryKite
I keep hearing about all this jazz about united and delta pulling contracts from RAH cause of competition. Its not going to happen.
a. Its a contract (can be broken various ways but i doubt there is a clause that covers if one of the parties involved buys an airline to compete with the other.)
You can probably own equity (ie stock) in a competing airline without any trouble. But actually being involved in operating said airline, and integrating it with a codeshare regional probably violates any regional feed contract.
Originally Posted by
ScaryKite
b. BB is not that stupid, he would never bite the hand that feeds him....not yet at least. yeah you may not like him, but i think he knows how to run an airline.
Probably true. But he may be taking a chance that his contract is vague enough that he can win in court. Or he may be assuming that UAL will liquidate soon and there's nothing to lose.
Originally Posted by
ScaryKite
c. Have any of you ever thought that there might be a little cahooting going on here. You think its possible that Delta and or United gave RAH their blessing in purchasing Midwest and Frontier to compete with good ole Southwest.
Because unless you've been in a box for 20 years. you might notice that WN has been handing the legacies arses to them. Maybe just maybe they, (Delta, United) would consider it advantageous for some of their partners to compete with southwest to run them out, or loose some market share of markets here and there. WN has been strong for a long while. But their fuel hedges are coming to an end. DEN isnt working like they planned and all in all loads are down system wide. I believe RAHs mainline codeshares would appreciate a little competetion if they could be on the side of the one who throws a blow at their main competition. Then again WN could almost buy Rjet for what they were willing to bid for F9. Lets wait and see.
Highly unlikely...to the point of being ludicrous. UAL managers cannot see past the end of their own noses, much less hatch some devious scheme to crush SWA. Not to mention there are probably all kinds of anti-trust issues with multiple airlines conniving to run a competitor out of certain markets.
Might UAL look the other way the situation works in their favor? Sure.