Flybyguy From United States of America, joined Jun 2004, 1791 posts, RR: 1 Posted (5 years 3 months 4 weeks 12 hours ago) and read 1303 times:
I'm just throwing this question out to the aviation community. Is is feasible to have an interline agreement between all the true LCCs in the U.S.? Furthermore would it be beneficial to these carriers when competing against Legacies?
Personally, I think that when things go wrong at the LCCs the most they can do is give you a voucher and wish you good luck on Greyhound. It would be nice as a LCC passenger that I may have the opportunity to fly Southwest, Airtran, Frontier, Spirit, Midwest, Jetblue, or Virgina America if my LCC carrier cannot accommodate me on a particular flight.
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Atrude777 From United States of America, joined Aug 2003, 5613 posts, RR: 54 Reply 1, posted (5 years 3 months 4 weeks 12 hours ago) and read 1289 times:
While WN doesn't have interline per say if needed we will put you on another airline and pay for it.
It happened to me a lot in STL I would get customers from US, NW and AA with checks to purchase tickets on our flights.
I know we have done it to US Airways in PHX and LAS.
However most of the LCC have an interline/code share agreement with other LCC, WN/ATA, F9/FL have a marketing agreement.
Feasible perhaps, but costly it just might be. I don't have the financial paperwork in my hands to see so I don't know how much it'd cost if any to have interline agreement with the LCC.
Alex
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HPAEAA From United States of America, joined May 2006, 1020 posts, RR: 2 Reply 2, posted (5 years 3 months 4 weeks 11 hours ago) and read 1262 times:
Quoting Atrude777 (Reply 1): However most of the LCC have an interline/code share agreement with other LCC, WN/ATA, F9/FL have a marketing agreement.
Feasible perhaps, but costly it just might be. I don't have the financial paperwork in my hands to see so I don't know how much it'd cost if any to have interline agreement with the LCC.
Alex
Interestingly enough, WN does participate in the clearinghouse already with the ATA for MX Expenses and so on, I wonder how much extra it would cost to add the ticketing agreements...
Tripleboom From United States of America, joined Jul 2006, 278 posts, RR: 14 Reply 3, posted (5 years 3 months 4 weeks ago) and read 1178 times:
Frontier can rule tickets over to most carriers (WN and B6 among the exceptions). In fact F9 has interline e-ticketing agreements with Hahn Air, Korean, US Air, Delta, United, Continental, Northwest, Midwest, ATA, and Hawaiian. I'd say that's some pretty good choices should you need to be rerouted.
Hiflyer From United States of America, joined Nov 2004, 2118 posts, RR: 4 Reply 4, posted (5 years 3 months 4 weeks ago) and read 1175 times:
I think the real standalone carriers in the US are Southwest, Spirit, JetBlue, Virgin America, Skybus. Midwest, Frontier, and AirTran do play with the legacy group. Who did I miss?
Azstar From United States of America, joined May 2005, 541 posts, RR: 0 Reply 5, posted (5 years 3 months 4 weeks ago) and read 1171 times:
Frontier has interline agreements with every US airline except WN, B6, XE, which do not interline. So, if your F9 flight is cancelled or delayed (which is very uncommon with them) they can reroute you on almost any other airline.
Ha! I think it's the other way around 90% of the time. Check your DOT stats. Almost always the #1 major carrier in fewest cancellations and almost always in the top 5 among the majors in OTP. F9 is always happy to bail out the legacies when their aging fleets take a crap on them. Gives people a chance to try a quality coach class domestic airline, and they do come back for more.
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