Originally Posted by
tom14cat14
How can it be a code share if they do not paint their planes in delta colors. I do not know about silver but I am guessing they do not paint their planes in major colors.
Really? Us Airways code shares with United, yet they don't paint their planes in United colors. Hundreds of airlines around the world code share with each other every day! It's a form of business, whether they paint the planes or not!
Originally Posted by
tom14cat14
I just realized some might take offence to the third tier airline in my original post. I do not mean third tier as in even crappier then other regional's. I meant as another level of flying for the major carrier. This "tier" does not fly as a connection/express carrier. Great lakes for example flies into MSP and brings them to a terminal that you almost guarantee that they will jump on a Delta plane. These were all routes that XJ used to fly and delta pulled out so they could be an all jet fleet. It just seems like this is a way around it. I wonder if Great lakes shares any rev with Delta on these routes?
Well, I am sure they do, but even if they don't, Lakes is still bringing in pax that would feed into Delta! So pax flying out of Devils Lakes for instance, will still fly through MSP and continue to give Delta business, instead of possibly driving to Fargo and hopping on United to go out west!
Originally Posted by
johnso29
Delta is in a revenue sharing Joint Venture with KLM/AF/Alitalia, & has 50% of the flying(it can drop below that, but that's getting too deep). AF/KLM/Alitalia split the other 50% of the flying. That's why you can be booked on a DL flight & KLM flight on the same record locator.
I know, I was merely being sarcastic
Originally Posted by
uvuflier
I was wondering about this too. What are the incentives for Delta other than feed?
Feed with no risk! Delta does not pay Lakes a dime to operate the routes, where as Delta does pay for the CRJs to fly most of their routes! It's a win win for Delta!