Is this the next stage for feeder flying
04-14-2012 | 04:01 PM
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This was the way things worked before Fee for Departure. If you look at pictures of Comair Brasilias and Saabs and ASA Brasilias from the mid 80s to the Mid 90s you will see them in Comair and ASA paint schemes, not Delta.
04-14-2012 | 04:07 PM
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I just realized some might take offence to the third tier airline in my original post. I do not mean third tier as in even crappier then other regional's. I meant as another level of flying for the major carrier. This "tier" does not fly as a connection/express carrier. Great lakes for example flies into MSP and brings them to a terminal that you almost guarantee that they will jump on a Delta plane. These were all routes that XJ used to fly and delta pulled out so they could be an all jet fleet. It just seems like this is a way around it. I wonder if Great lakes shares any rev with Delta on these routes?
Delta is in a revenue sharing Joint Venture with KLM/AF/Alitalia, & has 50% of the flying(it can drop below that, but that's getting too deep). AF/KLM/Alitalia split the other 50% of the flying. That's why you can be booked on a DL flight & KLM flight on the same record locator.
Feed with no risk! Delta does not pay Lakes a dime to operate the routes, where as Delta does pay for the CRJs to fly most of their routes! It's a win win for Delta!
04-14-2012 | 05:47 PM
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Thank you for letting me informing me on this topic. I did not realize all these companies fly for them with their own paint. I know there were some skywest planes in their colors but i thought that was only so they could fly for any major they have a contract for. I did not mean to ruffle any feathers here. To me it was new but it is my mistake.
04-15-2012 | 08:39 AM
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Thank you for letting me informing me on this topic. I did not realize all these companies fly for them with their own paint. I know there were some skywest planes in their colors but i thought that was only so they could fly for any major they have a contract for. I did not mean to ruffle any feathers here. To me it was new but it is my mistake.
04-15-2012 | 10:06 AM
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I have just been wondering if this is how majors will start getting around scope. The regionals are no longer "contractors" but instead "codeshare partners" and mainline is simply selling seats on all these small individual airlines.
04-15-2012 | 10:14 AM
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This is exactly what I was wondering about. What's to stop an airline with 190s in their own colors partnering with a major under a code-share agreement?
04-15-2012 | 10:47 AM
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I guess this was what i was meaning to get at also not the code share.
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