Originally Posted by
Toddzilla
Using Boutique as an example, I would bet that because it's all subsidized flying the empty legs are still 135. I don't know for sure, but that's my guess.
We were assigned different flight numbers for 91 legs.
EAS flights are a bit murky, because they technically are commuter operations even when empty, but they are not, as in 135.101, "an aircraft carrying passengers under IFR ", so SIC is never required by the regs on those legs.