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Originally Posted by dragon
Am I misreading it? "Frontier is going to use the planes to operate other service as part of a partnership with DAL"?
Do we have a DCI agreement with Frontier? If not, perhaps this is enough for even the densest ALPA Lawyer to finally grow a set a declare RAH as one airline and in violation of Section 1.
Now, if I have misread the whole thing I'll go back to my corner and color. Of course, it could be the reporter has made a mistake in the article.
Republic has a choice. They can operate selling their own tickets as Frontier, or codeshare as Midwest, or let Delta deal with sales and make a guaranteed profit as a DCI carrier. Since Frontier is losing money (Bedford does not know the recipe for the secret sauce) those airplanes are being reallocated to Delta where Delta will lose money on them.
They have this flexibility because your union defined this as not your flying in your Section 1. It did not have to be this way, but remember all the calisthenics your MEC went through to show MidWest flying was not Northwest flying? Remember all that hoopla about the Delta MEC defining Compass off the property and E-170 flying not Delta flying either?
We managers think that was funny - yeah you sure proved it was not your work, but now you whine about not having those jobs. Union ... my bald head.
Alter Ego Doug