Originally Posted by John Carr

Fixed for clarity.

But when a legacy has control over ALL OF IT'S OPERATION, it tends to operate better. After DAL acquired PNCL it cleaned them up considerably. Simply due to the FACT that they have so much oversight and control.

Even after the COEX/XJT IPO spinoff and CAL no longer "owned" it's exclusive (at that time) jet provider they still had almost 100% control of the operation. And due to the agreements and support provided the "on time" as well every other metric was unheard of for a regional lift provider.

Fast forward to where UCH is doing things the way the L-UAL did in the BK and you have a completely crappy and substandard product at the UAX level. And one of the most pathetic things about it, UCH wants that feed CHEAPER. Even though they are still reaping the rock bottom costs attained during all the BK RFP's and lowest bidder operating model.