Well dudes, our scope has stopped you from getting more 70 seaters (until now I guess) and kept many INTL codeshares to a minimum---we could have had one flight to Europe total and bought seats on all the other airlines I guess. We had approval of certain domestic codeshares (CAL/NW and Alaska), and kept 90 and 100 seaters out of your hands. I would say we got something out of our scope.
Medflyer,
Yes, you have grown tremendously----mainly in the 50 seat arena, which was allowed anyway. And, look at our stellar profits. Businessmen wanting our mainline service after 9-11 were met with mainly 50 seat RJs, and they went somewhere else. But, you have been full----of leisure travellers, paying the same fares as Airtran fares. All this growth from you guys and we have losses. The DFW base was mainly RJs, and it did worse than our mainline operation, with businessmen flocking to AA to avoid the long RJ flights. Oh yeah, it was our fault with our high paying contract..... You too man.
Cmrflyer,
You guys went for the money, and got most of it. But, you forgot about your own backyard. Now look at it. That was YOUR fault. Our scope helped us out for the most part----stopping you from getting too many 70 seaters and maybe bigger. You may get some more now, but you also might have the callsign "Air Shuttle." That might get interesting. You can go to bigger planes though--- I think they fly CR9s in PHX for AWA.
And as far as my shiznet, it really does stink. You are mad because I can retort any of your claims. Look, I know my views of the Comair debacle make you mad, but I am not against any one Comair pilot---I am just mad that our people were offered help with strings. The other airlines (ASA and CHQ) offered help, and Comair did with conditions. That will always be a sore spot for many.
Bye Bye--General Lee