On Your Six
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Flying belongs to the shareholders and management. From there they decide who the flying gets assigned to. Sometimes it's their in-house plots, sometimes they contract out to another carrier (regional), or even a code-share.
The rare case nowadays is the airline whose management contractually agrees with their in-house pilots that all flying be done by them (SWA).
Not saying I like the system, but this is what it is in a nutshell.
Sorry, flying belongs to scope clauses between management and the mainline pilots. SWA management might want smaller planes flying to smaller cities, but the contract there doesn't allow it, regardless what the SWA shareholders want. I wish the legacies had that strong of scope, but previous BK filings didn't help. More profits as of late will help strengthen that hopefully in future contracts. That could increase mainline hiring, helping bring people up from the regionals.
Godspeed!
The OYSter