Originally Posted by
J Dawg
Republic has all of those flights there due to the network planers at the major partners. The majors plan the flights of their regional partners to optimize the network of the major carrier, not vice versa. Delta, American, etc couldn't give two sh/ts where Republic has their mx bases.
Republic has it built into their CPAs that they will operate all or most of the originator and terminator flights to it's MX bases. Its why Republic flights are always first out and last in to places like CMH, IND, PIT and SDF. Go ahead, check out a United or Delta schedule for CMH or IND...the first and last regional fight is nearly always operated by Shuttle America.
Also, Republic tried to feed it's American 175 flying from it's CMH base, but American said they couldn't because Eagle (Envoy) already has a MX base there.