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Old 02-05-2021, 11:25 AM
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Originally Posted by ElCaribe View Post
Skywest would never do that. Branching out would mean kissing the big three cash cow goodbye. Their contracts with the big three limit what size of plane they can fly for competitors. Not to mention the 10 year deals they’ve inked recently.
That is an issue of course, and I don't think OO would go there unless the FFD biz was fundamentally altered coming out of covid. That might happen if things are bad enough to trigger all kinds of scope limits, but not quite bad enough to file BK and get mainline scope tossed out.

Note "competitors" above. OO would probably not be restricted from operating larger planes under it's own brand. But the reality is that even if that was technically allowed it might annoy the big boys, who probably don't want to subsidize a growing LCC competitor. So their contracts would probably stay intact, but probably not get renewed.
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