Whoa! AA-KE Codeshare

[commavia]

Once again, yet another reminder ... Delta isn't the only one who can make life "interesting" for a competitor ...
 
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/american-airlines-korean-air-announce-170000453.html

 

[AirbusA310]

Now DL is just gonna have to kick KE off skyteam for sleeping with the enemy...hahaha

 

[WorldTraveler]

the codeshare according to the article is only for the DFW-ICN route which KE is clearly going to cancel.

as much as some people want to believe otherwise, there are timelines in every airline commercial agreement that require that the partnership remain until pre-determined periods of time and exclude certain markets.

It is precisely for this reason that AS and DL are still partners.

 

[FrugalFlyerv2.0]

the codeshare according to the article is only for the DFW-ICN route which KE is clearly going to cancel.

as much as some people want to believe otherwise, there are timelines in every airline commercial agreement that require that the partnership remain until pre-determined periods of time and exclude certain markets.

It is precisely for this reason that AS and DL are still partners.

 
What beautiful spin!!!!
 

 
Hey, does anybody else remember how the DL fankid cheerleader wrote diatribes about how KE was going to teach AA a lesson for starting a route to ICN?
 
"WT/Spectator, party of 1, your table is ready"

 

[WorldTraveler]

and I will admit that KE appears to be bowing out of the DFW market.

and, if that is true, I was wrong that KE would prevail.

 

[eolesen]

What's ironic is that under the codeshare, KE customers may actually earn more miles than they would by flying DL.

 

[WorldTraveler]

and, once again, does the agreement include anything other than the DFW-ICN route?

and if you or anyone thinks that AA is a company that KE wants to partner with after AA pushing KE out of a market - if that happens, then you are more naive than even I thought.

this isn't a victory for KE. It is an admission of defeat at the hands of a competitor.

given that DL has lower costs than AA, it shows how vulnerable KE really is to competition.

 

[FrugalFlyerv2.0]

and I will admit that KE appears to be bowing out of the DFW market.

and, if that is true, I was wrong that KE would prevail.

 

 

[MAH4546]

If this press release just replaced "Korean Air, "American Airlines" and "Dallas-Seoul route" with "Cathay Pacific," "Delta Air Lines" and "Seattle-Hong Kong route," respectively, we'd be reading a WorldTraveller-penned eulogy on Cathay Pacific's oneWorld membership. 

 

[FWAAA]

Once again, yet another reminder ... Delta isn't the only one who can make life "interesting" for a competitor ...
 
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/american-airlines-korean-air-announce-170000453.html

Correct me if I'm wrong, but weren't we treated to thousands of words over the past couple of years from one know-it-all about AA's impending failure on DFW-ICN? How AA was doomed to fail on this route because Korean Air had that market locked up? What happened?

 

[WorldTraveler]

and I said that if KE pulls out of DFW, AA did in fact win, not AA.

given that LAX-GRU is also on the fence for KE and is a very poor performing for AA as well, perhaps a couple someones met in a bathroom someplace and we will see part two to this.


whether we do or not, it is clear that AA and KE cannot coexist on the two longhaul routes they compete on.

If this press release just replaced "Korean Air, "American Airlines" and "Dallas-Seoul route" with "Cathay Pacific," "Delta Air Lines" and "Seattle-Hong Kong route," respectively, we'd be reading a WorldTraveller-penned eulogy on Cathay Pacific's oneWorld membership.

no you wouldn't because if the press release talked about one route, then that is all it would involve

if KE actually jumps from Skyteam, then let me know and we can discuss the implications of that decision.

btw, in case you missed it, I'm not sure that DL was blindsided given their decision to upgrade SEA-ICN to a 333 AFTER the peak season.

 

[UPNAWAY]

 
and, once again, does the agreement include anything other than the DFW-ICN route?

 

 
 
But the words used by both sides implied way more.

 

[WorldTraveler]

sorry but contracts are based on facts and written agreements, not implications.

 

[700UW]

sorry but contracts are based on facts and written agreements, not implications.

I can use this later, lol!

 

[WorldTraveler]

yes, like your implication that a union can have anything to do with executive compensation is not supportable.