Originally Posted by
sbm12
I would be very surprised if this were to happen. They know what the IT requirements are and they have been working on them since the initial announcement. That's what the remapping of the fare classes was all about back in January, for example. Plus, *A makes it much easier to integrate systems because CO just has to plug in to StarNet, not strike individual technical agreements with each partner.
CO has some of the best IT people in the airline business, to be sure, but the SHARES system is downright beastly when it comes to interline issues. US Airways, which also uses SHARES, found the experience of integrating SHARES into Star's IT infrastructure literally debilitating for months.