Originally Posted by Mason32

If any future scope concessions were only granted to wholly owned companies it would not be in the parent companies interest to sell them.

The eventual result sometime in the future would be a consolidation of the mainline and regional part 121 operations into just one airline to streamline operations and reduce costs.

...The immediate problem is the companies that stick somebody elses name in big letters on the plane, but are operated by a company that will fly in anybody's colors, for less money then the wholly owned companies. They are dragging everybody down with them.