major airline code share/scope
I have been posting this ever since republic had its coming out party but i believe and will continue to believe until i am proven wrong that the reason that delta,united and usair are allowing republic to continue to operate flights as regionals for them and operate their own flights on the same competing routes is that republic is getting 100+seat aircraft and when negotiations come around the majors will either try to get a less protective code share agreement from ALPA or they will cry "look at how cheap republic is operating those C-Series planes for, you need to take those rates or we need to farm those aircraft out to the regionals in order to survive"
Although some may think this is a republic bashing thread, its not i actually feel bad for republic,frontier,midwest,lynx, because i think they are all being used to get around scope.
I am very worried about the future of the industry, I challenge and support ALPA to do everything they can to stop this mess.
What are your thoughts on this?