Originally Posted by
JoeMerchant
Howdy bumped,
Again, I looking for the specific language. The CAL pilots are making some threats without backing it up with specifics. That isn't sitting well with me.
Does everyone realize that CAL has been doing this thru "codeshare" long before this IAH issue came up. I pulled up two examples on the CAL website.
Example 1: FAT to IAH. Using codeshare, the first leg could be on a Mesa CRJ900 (USAirways Express)
Example 2: MFR to IAH. Using codeshare, the first leg is on a United Express 700 (Skywest)
They have been doing this for a long time. Is it the cities of IAH, CLE, and EWR that make the difference?
CAL has been selling tickets on CRJ 700s and 900s for quite some time now....
Understood. Hopefully someone will post the actual language for you. The difference is that no-one has opened a crew base in IAH, CLE, or EWR to do that kind of flying. The flying was always done by a competitor in a code-share agreement. Now its being done "in-house" with a crew domicile and base in these cities. I'm sure you can agree that the XJET wasn't flying 700's out of IAH, CLE, or EWR ONLY because it was prohibited by the CAL scope clause. Well, now Skywest comes in and starts doing exactly that based on it being "United". I'm sure you can see the difference in this vs. USAirways Express flying a CRJ900 into IAH with a CAL codeshare on it.
Cheers