Originally Posted by
Clrd2LndATL
For those who have a better understanding of the scope rules maybe it can be better explained to me how this is legal. As of right now I can purchase a one-way ticket on "United" from CLT to LAS connecting in IAH operated by SkyWest CRJ7 on the first leg and Continental 737 on the second. I was trying to book travel through travelosity when I cam e across it!? Is the Continental flight just a codeshare with United? It sure does NOT seem to be the INTENT of the ruling!!!
The sounds about right. When the ruling first came out I was at a welcome back furlough party at the union hall at IAH and asked a question about this. As it was explained at the time, those flights can't have a CAL code on them. They can put any code they want on it except the CAL code. So really the only place you can't find those flights are on the continental.com website. At travelosity and the other like sites they can piece together any flight from any airline. Really in my opinion it was some what of a hollow win. The only people that would not be able to access these flights are people who only book their tickets through continental.com only. Now who are the people that only shop for airfare on only the company site, I don't know.