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Old Nov 1, 2011 | 9:31 am
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SFOtoORD
 
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Originally Posted by sbm12
Why would the JV survive? It was put in place so that UA could operate the route using an aircraft with a lower cost structure than any other that they could operate in-house. Now they have other aircraft with lower costs that let them bring it back in.

The pilots should be ecstatic that mainline flying is coming back in-house, shouldn't they???
That is my exact point. The pilots were never going to let that JV survive.
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