Originally Posted by
iahflyr
Interesting thing I just thought of...
Are any of the United guys getting up in arms about the Colgan Q400's (with 76 seats I believe) being flown ORD-CLE. Isn't that a clear violation of United's scope??
No, of course they aren't. The Q400's are allowed under CAL's scope clause.
When we do sign a JCBA, odds are that all the current regional aircraft will be grandfathered in, or the scope clause will be a mix of what it is at the two carriers today (allowing some 70 seat jets and some 76 seat turboprops). But until we sign the JCBA, I don't think we have any leverage in complaining. The fact is that the company is operating within United's scope clause by operating the Skywest 70 seaters, and the company is within Continental's scope clause by operating the Colgan 76 seaters.
No, you are missing the boat again. Flying a Colgan plane with 76 seats from CLE-ORD is not an issue. Now if Colgan started flying a Q400 out of ORD-DSM and tried to open an ORD base for the Q, we'd be having the same argument.
The "Home base" of that flight is CLE, just as Skywest has been able to fly CRJ700's into IAH for years now as long as it was from a UAL hub.