Originally Posted by
eaglefly
This was the plan from the beginning.
The larger RJ's flown by regionals will soon sweep the majority of the domestic market. As each new carrier arrives and grows it forces others to join.
Had 2 friends who went there and are now on the streets with outlooks for this industry bleaker by the day.
Going forward ALPA needs to be focused on protecting scope
and more importantly doing something about codeshares. What's to stop the majors in Skyteam, One World, and Star Alliance from code sharing with RAH on domestic flights? I doubt Tilton, Arpey, Anderson, Parker, or Smisek (well soon at least) care if RAH operates their domestic flights as long as they get a share of the money. The majors operate the international stuff and regionals do the domestic stuff in ever bigger "RJs" (C-Series anyone?) or just flat out operating A320s (like RAH/F9 will be) or 737s. It's the perfect way for them to whipsaw their own unions and combat the LCCs.
The lack of negative response out of the CEOs of majors against RAH makes me wonder if something is up. RAH is using the money from their lucrative fee for departure contracts to compete against their "partners." Why aren't these CEOs angry, they are funding their own competition!