Southwest does not provide them the revenue Delta can. Southwest is not set up for code share.

As a Southwest guy that is concerned about code-sharing away our growth, I am very happy about the announcement.

Delta loves to code share, at some point we will simply become a seat broker.

West Jet will make another 1 billion a year from it. Delta will profit as well.

That's because they were going to codeshare transborder flights with you. What I'm hearing is that we will codeshare on their domestic Canadian flights, and carry their code on our transborder flights. They do have cabotage in Canada.

Amen, brother.

By your statement, does this means that SWA has plans to go international on their own?

Eventually they will be forced to. LUV is like any other airline. You have to continually grow to spread out legacy costs over more seats. There are only a finite number of city pairs they can serve in CONUS before they need to look elsewhere.

Every read "NUTS"? SWA would fly ONLY between HOU-DAL if it made them money. SWA cares about profits, not market share.

G-dog,

Yes, and the DOW will be 100,000. Just Hope the former happens before the latter. The question is "when"?

GK has mentioned numerous times he intends to fly internationally, just not in the short term. The claims are we are not "IT" prepared; dunno, maybe it's the lack of assigned seating (an international requirement). There is still a lot of domestic growth potential.

My bet is, we'll fly to San Juan, PR in the near term. I know, I know PR is not international, but it is outside the Republic of Texas, so it's a start.

PS actually, if the DOW hits 100,000, I'm retiring.