Originally Posted by rickair7777
There is nothing inherently interesting to the government in the outsourcing of regional flying. It is not particularly dangerous, decietful, or unethical. Everything is disclosed, as long as you read your ticket.
It's interesting you feel that way. If you would ask 80%-90% of the pax, they would say they are traveling on United/US Air/Northwest etc.
Just yesterday some guy gets on "we've had a really bad experience with this airline all day!" he exclaims. "Oh really, which airline?" "US AIR!!" he screams as he's getting onto an Air Wisconsin flight.
Personally, while it is disclosed, the traveling public is inherently 'stupid' when in comes to subcontractors. They only know of the mainline carrier. Yes, some do know about the "regionals" but larger and larger aircraft (think Republics 170 mishap in IAD, remember the news reports? "United airplane blah blah blah...") and jet aircraft are blending mainline and feeder.