Originally Posted by
hockeypilot44
So they will be operated as a stand alone carrier and sell their own tickets and pay their own bills? Star Alliance, One World, and Skyteam are code-sharing joint ventures with the ability to collaborate on schedules. Everyone is still selling their own tickets.
Ok I'm not completely up on the legalities and contracts with certain mainline carriers so if I overstep please feel free to enlighten me.
If you go on a carriers website and book from a certain point A to C connecting in B you can actually purchase seats on another carriers flights. For example you could have booked a leg on US Airways through United's booking site.
Now what I am getting at is what is stopping United, Delta, etc. from simply telling Republic what routes to fly the C-Series on and selling all the seats on that carriers own booking site? They could even include the fuel costs etc. in the agreement. So on the surface there would be little change to the operation from where it is now...only on much larger aircraft.
Also, what is to stop BB from operating the C-Series under a foreign carriers livery and conducting US domestic operations under a FFD type agreement?