Originally Posted by
FlyASA
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!
All I know is that DAL/NWA was behind the dismantling of Midwest and continues to be a player in there behind the scenes. This whole "code share" that enabled Republic to come in and take our jobs was a bogus ruling. Even more so was the last ruling by the same judge in clear violation of our contract. To bad we agreed to binding arbitration process. We would have won in Federal Court. Maybe this is the area where ALPA needs to concentrate on and do away with the binding arbitration process. There is no justice when a pilot group can be sacrificed for the share holders to make millions and a cockroach carrier like Republic and its pawns to come in and steal the crumbs.