Originally Posted by BoilerUP (Post 3445398)

135.243.(a)(1)

Originally Posted by TFAYD (Post 3445369)

The real question is who will be marketing those flights. I don’t think they will show up with UA or DL flight numbers in some reservation system.

Is OO starting to sell tickets? Can you book a continuous itinerary from Podunk to ATL? Will they get connection fees from any mainline partner?

This will get really interesting.

Originally Posted by TipTanks (Post 3445355)

I’m not an aviation lawyer, but I doubt you are either. So really I don’t know.

But seems like a bit of a paper shuffle to have a charter company sell the tickets and have the certificate holder operate the flights.

I don’t know. If it were me I might incorporate a company called SW Charter Holdings, Inc. to operate the flights and then another company called SkyWest Charter, LLC to sell the tickets.

Point is it can be done. I can buy a ticket to Vegas on JSX any day of the week. Feels no different than buying a ticket on Southwest.

Originally Posted by Round Luggage (Post 3445116)

Captains going to be retirees?

Originally Posted by amcnd (Post 3445403)

Company memo said they will hold the charter side to the same safety standards as the 121 side. Not a whole lot of new info. But will use 200’s currently not being used.

Originally Posted by TwOtter (Post 3445435)

Need an ATP for 135 scheduled multi-engine service.

No ATP if service is on-demand OR scheduled service is done in a single-engine aircraft.

Originally Posted by TipTanks (Post 3445587)

Yeah my miss. That’s why Cape and Boutique and Tradewind don’t use ME aircraft.

So if the captain of this SW Charter has to have an ATP, why would they do that job? Great deal to lock in 250 hour FOs but how do you get a captain to stay there getting TPIC for at least 1250 hours?

Originally Posted by TipTanks (Post 3445587)

Yeah my miss. That’s why Cape and Boutique and Tradewind don’t use ME aircraft.

So if the captain of this SW Charter has to have an ATP, why would they do that job? Great deal to lock in 250 hour FOs but how do you get a captain to stay there getting TPIC for at least 1250 hours?

Originally Posted by b3181981 (Post 3445599)

Pay the FO peanuts for the experience and I'm sure they will have a line of wet commercial guys who don't what to instruct do it and give the captains 110k+. Then when the FO has the time they upgraded and tell the new FO I did it so you can too.