It looks like American will be losing yet another partner airline soon. It has just been announced that American and WestJet will be ending their partnership as of July 31, 2018. WestJet was American’s only partner in Canada, so while United has Air Canada and Delta has WestJet, American will be left with nothing.
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We are talking about the airline run by someone with the arrogance to think the airline will never lose money again. Maybe AA thinks it can just go at it alone?
Your last bullet point regarding EY and QR is interesting. Do you think AA will follow in the footsteps of DL in which it’s easier to earn on certain partners such as BA, IB, JL, and more difficult to earn on QR or even CX for that matter?
I believe that DL will be able to defend this deal as protecting U.S. jobs because most, if not all, the A321neo aircraft will be produced at the Airbus facility in Mobile, AL.
This is actually a really good deal for Canadians if Westjet can use this to expand their network and codeshare more.
Delta has a much stronger route network in Canada than AA did. AC has expanded substantially with its UA joint venture and if WS could do something similar it could drive prices down in Canada.