Originally Posted by
Big E 757
I don’t think this is correct. If Skywest bought E190’s or the CSeries, cannibus, and flew them for United, on any route, Delta would have to drop Skywest from their network. That’s my understanding of our RJ scope language.
This is my understanding as well?
Not only DL pilots, but also DL managers don't want to compete with anybody else using outsourced lift for bigger (than 70 seats) planes.
Regardless, the sense at OO is that they are firmly in the legacy regional feed business and are not interested in compromising that position by expanding into things which might violate the letter or spirit of that business model. Other regionals might, but OO knows which side of their bread is buttered. They aren't going to play with contractual loopholes and risk losing big contracts long term.