Originally Posted by
CBreezy
Here's what is funny. Everyone wants mainline to pull flying back in house and quit subcontracting to regionals. When one of them starts doing it, everyone starts saying how they are being Comaired and starts boycotting... Because that makes sense. What did you think would happen when flying started moving back to Mainline?
No mainline operator in their right mind is pulling regional flying in house. Why would they? It is a cheap source of additional feed.
Yes, they may up-gauge a route that was previously served by a 50 or 76 seater to a C-Series or 717. But that just means that capacity was freed up to tackle a new market with that freed up equipment.
Yes, there is now some "open scope" with Delta - but don't even think for a second that this scope isn't spoken for. It is just a matter of time until that gap will be filled again with regional flying.
All the majors - with a scope clause - are scoped out for a reason.