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Old Sep 1, 2009 | 4:44 pm
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Originally Posted by emcampbe
According to an artice in today's New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/01/bu...bal/01air.html), the code shares are only available to 12 American cities. That's nothing, I would expect this to have little, if any, effect on CO.
It is 12 cities to start but it will grow. And you should expect that in the future jetBlue will also aim to put their code on LH flights, though that is likely waiting until they upgrade their reservations system to Sabre which is scheduled for later this year and into early 2010. The codesharing will expand, but it still isn't a problem for CO.

Originally Posted by MarkXS
could LH funnel enough money into B6 to fund B6 acquiring UA? Or funding a domestic JV of B6/CO/UA?
No way B6 acquires UA, though that was definitely entertaining to read. Domestic JV is more likely and it is rather unlikely to happen, IMO.


Originally Posted by emcampbe
Except for US, as there's no longer any rationale for them in *A Even if they are still in for 5 years, they aren't going to be getting as much connecting and codeshare business from UA & LH as before.
They still offer the best coverage option in the southeast. Not a ton of business there necessarily, but I cannot imagine choosing to cede that to DL which is basically the only other player there. US also has decent coverage in the Caribbean that B6 could probably match eventually but it would take a while to get there.
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