Originally Posted by
tom11011
My prediction is that major airlines will one day simply sell tickets and own the branding. All other services, including the flying of large jets, will be bid out just like the regional airlines of today bid. If you are a business, its a great model to have multiple carriers bid for the same flying.
Further, I predict that by 2020 some type of model will exist where 65% of flying is farmed out to what we call "regional airlines" today.
Yea keep giving away scope and we will see MRJs and C series at the regionals and it will be a real career ender where captains will top out at 130k and FOs top out at 70k. The current regional model will go away. It'll be the new low cost carrier and majors will only fly heavies and mostly international where the bulk of their revenue is generated from.
I called it first!