SWA abroad...more than a rumor

[Truckdriver]

I also heard that XJT is going to start flying point to point from lots cities in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California into lots of cities in Mexico. The rumor was that XJT would be doing the flying under their name with the airplanes they are losing form CAL and that SWA would be a code share partner. I guess the new guy at SWA thinks he can get into Europe and Hawaii with ATA and Mexico with XJT.

 

[atafan]

I guess the new guy at SWA thinks he can get into Europe and Hawaii with ATA and Mexico with XJT.

The seven year codeshare agreement between ATA and SWA is exclusive, there will be no other codeshare partners unless mutually agreed.

 

[Bringupthebird]

Why doesn't SWA go to a Chinese or Indian airline and say "We'll run it for you". Money is money.

 

[OffHot]

I don't know if the ATA is exclusive as GK has said he would continue to look at codesharing with ATA and any other carriers when it makes sense. The international thing is also nothing new since it was part of our agreement witht he partnership that bought our interest in ATA. On the ATA merger, if that is what you want to call it, with yesterdays annoucement that we will exercise our options on 70+ airplanes I would say that has also been put on the back burner, giving us and the company time to negotiate in sec 6 just how this will done in the future (in writing).