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When you operate different code shares you see how they route their aircraft, the priorities they give to certain flights, and yes interactions with gate agents and how some work with the flight crews and others try to be hardasses (could certainly be station specific). Not every interaction with a gate agent or ramper is that of someone that is outsourced. You pay attention to the interactions of those that aren't outsourced.
All of this and more let's you glean how their operation runs from a day to day basis and from that you can generate an opinion on what you like from different code shares and what you don't like. This is strictly day to day operation. You're right though, you don't get the management emails and all that but that isn't the daily grind you get flying the line. All of this comes from the top down. A culture is set from the top down. You notice that some groups are more disgruntled than others.
I hope this makes sense and helps, otherwise I think we may have to agree to disagree.
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Again, a pretty big stretch to use as any kind of factor while deciding what regional to work for.
How they route their acft? Don't you have your own dispatchers for that? If you are referring to something else. If you work for XJT in EWR you are savvy to how mainline routes their acft in DEN, or LAX? As far as the structure I'd say the majority of "issues" happen some way or another because of something out of the mainline's control. Mainline route structures don't just break down without a major weather event, computer issue, etc. In the case of an event well, if I really need to see how United handled it I can just look on flight aware or any other similar tool.
I understand what you mean by top down but dealing with a delta gate agent in like ABQ is not going to give you any kind of idea what the pilots or FAs that affect your day to day life are going to be like.
If you absolutely must know then you can jump seat around the country for a day on each legacy and make you decision that way.
This whole thing is freakin moot anyway because like I said in my original post if you are sitting at skywest, or RAH, XJT.....Whoever and the phone rings with a representative from delta on the other end you sure as shti aren't going to turn them down because "I operated some CRJs at XXX airline for you. I don't care for your culture. I think I'll wait and hope United calls me instead."