Us Airways Code-share/regulatory

ITRADE said:
New on the docket:

US has applied to codeshare with United for IAD-CUN, ORD-CZM, and DEN-SJD service.
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INTERESTING! I'd bet that UAL has apps or is flying those exact same routes. Why is this important? Because only two US carriers can fly a given city pair to/from Mexico.
UAL was applying for a bunch of DEN- Mexico slots, with plenty of other carriers (Champion, etc) trying to bid for the same routes ... they were destinations already served by FRNT.
The upshot of all this is that if both codeshare/death * partners tie up international city pairs out of each other's hubs, then they have a virtual monopoly. I'd be willing to bet that UAL has requested multiple CLT to Mexico routes.
 
iflyjetz said:
INTERESTING! I'd bet that UAL has apps or is flying those exact same routes. Why is this important? Because only two US carriers can fly a given city pair to/from Mexico.
UAL was applying for a bunch of DEN- Mexico slots, with plenty of other carriers (Champion, etc) trying to bid for the same routes ... they were destinations already served by FRNT.
The upshot of all this is that if both codeshare/death * partners tie up international city pairs out of each other's hubs, then they have a virtual monopoly. I'd be willing to bet that UAL has requested multiple CLT to Mexico routes.
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Codeshares do not count towards the 2 carrier per city-pair limit. There is a different limit (either 4 or 5, I forget which) for the number of codeshares permitted in a market. Indeed, US was recently denied its application for its own IAD-CUN service, since there are already 2 carriers in the WAS-CUN market.

As an aside, an airline and its commuter affiliate *do* each count towards the 2 carrier limit. There are several instances where Continental and ExpressJet or America West and Mesa hold both the route authorities for a given market. US could be able to, for instance, have PSA add a CLT-CUN frequency and tie up the market that way.
 
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Yesterday, DOT approved US's application to codeshare with United on the following routes:

IAD-CUN, ORD-CZM, and DEN-SJD
 
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