Originally Posted by
RemoveB4Flight
Let me offer an analogy.
Let’s say I am working a 9-5 job and you are my boss.
On my way to work one morning I get a flat tire. Could be a quick tire change and be back on the road and get to work on time. However, I don’t carry a spare tire. So now I call you and tell you I can’t make it to work because I have a flat tire.
Was the problem really that I had a flat tire or that I don’t have a spare?
The company might code this as a flat tire issue. I would code this as a spare tire issue.
The real question is how tolerant is the boss?
Right now the majors do not have to include the (pizz poor) operational performance of their regionals in their own on-time and completion numbers. So they are likely willing to cut the regionals some slack, because the alternative is to pay them more.
SKW for example will routinely "delay" a flight up to 24 hours or even more, flying it empty when they can finally find a crew just to avoid a cancellation on the board. Majors let them do it...
But that's changing in a couple years, the law is already passed, so majors will own the operational performance of their regionals, and have to report it as their own.