Originally Posted by
johnso29
If the planes will be operated through a code share, or an alliance, will RAH not have to be it's own airline? RAH will have to pay for fuel, maintenance, aircraft lease payments, ticketing systems, reservation systems, luggage tracking, training, etc. No? Frontier already had those things in place. No start up costs. It blew up in his face. We aren't talking about a FFD setup here. Which is the only thing BB has been successful at running.
You know, I think that Loon is a complete troll, but I actually agree that Bedford has his sights on an arrangement with a foreign carrier or consortium of carriers to operate those C-Series aircraft. Bedford's FFD operation is falling apart at the seams, I think he knows that the regional model in it's current form is unsustainable, and is therefore looking for a post mega-regional era business plan.
I won't be around long enough to care, but RJET's pilots need to have meaningful C-Series rates in the next TA, otherwise they're gonna be flying those things around for regional jet rates for YEARS after the next contract becomes amendable while the company, with the NMB in it's pocket, again drags out negotiations for the better part of a decade.