Originally Posted by
lincolnjkc
The GSA City Pair Program (CPP) awards contracts on a government fiscal year basis (October 1 - September 30). Contracts for Fiscal year '23, through September 30, 2023, were awarded a few months ago and B6 does hold that contract -- but there's always next year...and I believe that process will start again in a couple months. But if EK and B6 divorce mid contract that could make things interesting, particularly since I doubt B6 could make it with their own equipment.
The B6/EK codeshares for US-DXB flights operated by EK actually end after 10/29/22 so it’ll be interesting to see what happens with the contract