Originally Posted by
FmrFreightDog
Does anyone know what Alaska's seat cutoff is with regard to scope? In other words is there anything to keep, say, Pinnacle from flying E-195s for Alaska and carrying DAL passengers through the codeshare?
Horizon is already doing Q400 and RJ7 codeshare flying for Delta through the AS codeshare...
The limit is 50% or 86-seat cap, whichever comes first...
(FWIW AS 737-900 = 172 seats, 50% of 172 = 86)
If Pinnacle put 110 seats in that jet, DL could sell 55 seats average/month through the codeshare, depending on how the arrangement is structured.
AS can do 25% of hub-hub flying vs 6% for DCI
Non-hub AS codeshare flying is unlimited...
If you're worried about scope, the RJ scope issue is yesterday's news.
Looking forward it's mainline scope we need to worry about, and the definition of what Delta is:
-A holding company?
-A large-jet provider?
-A SkyTeam JV partner?
-An Airline?
Not trying to start anything here but this is coming and we better be prepared...
Just look at Air Lingus/United and Openskies/BA...some scary stuff going on already.
What if we "win" the RJ scope and end up all flying feed for say Jet Airways widebodies, what then?
Cheers
George