Originally Posted by
threeighteen
yeah my point exactly. 757s, 767s, A300s are (mis)labeled on the schedule page as trunk aircraft but the nature of the flying they do is rarely trunk in nature. They do more spoke/branch type flying.
CDG-MEM or KIX-MEM = trunk route
BOI-RNO not so much.
All of it is mislabeled as trunk. The term trunk airlines refers to the original airlines from the 30s. Those airlines also operated domestic routes like boi - rno yet they were still trunk airlines. I think FedEx muddied the waters by calling their flying trunk.