Fair point. Let me reframe it in terms of minimizing costs and optimizing profits.

The costs of rebuilding SHARES in the short term almost certainly exceed the shared revenue they might received from selling the seat assignments during that period. If selling the assignments were accretive to their $2B near-term target, I'm sure they'd make the change immediately.

They fact that they haven't, and this nearly identical issue has been going on for many months with AC, tells me that it's not accretive.

Facilitating codeshare travel is also not consistent with their clear goal of maximizing UA metal travel, not *A codeshares.

Greg