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On 1/18/2003 8:44:25 PM USAirUnited wrote:
Now that the Department of Justice has approved the three way code share for Delta, Northwest, and Continental in addition to the already existent US Airways and United Airlines deals. What will be the competitive response from the smaller low fare no frills carriers? As I recall they were lobbying pretty hard to put up a road block but things didn’t work out.
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IIRC - they also lobbied pretty hard against the "segment tax" that the big boys were hoping to use as a club against SWA. They lost that one, too... But lo and behold, SWA ended up clubbing THEM by moving in with a bunch of longer haul flights. Just because SWA lobbied against something doesn't necessarily mean that they are "afraid" of codeshares. As I mentioned in another thread, codeshares are a lot of smoke and mirrors and will have little, if any, impact of strengthening the financial positions of any of the partner airlines.