Originally Posted by
saxman66
Get ready to see every regional flying in and out of all the hubs in the DL system. In one concourse you'll see Comair, Mesaba, ASA, Skywest, Pinnacle, Freedom, Compass all lined up next to each other. Its makes for a really efficient operation if you ask me.

It's not a really efficient operation, just a really efficient whip-saw. It's worth it for management to have all the redundancy just to keep the line employee's pay rate low.