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It is UAL taking advantage of someone's existing operation and cutting their own risk and expenditures on parallel route structures.
There is precedent for this. Great Lakes was a dedicated United Express carrier untill 2000, at which point the relationship was terminated. Great Lakes became standalone, codesharing with BOTH United and Frontier in most markets. United only backfilled a fraction of the fromer network with other regional partners, and just accepted codesharing with a competitor in all but the biggest of those markets. The only difference between that arrangement and codesharing on Lynx flights would be scale.
Of course it's not going to happen. Skywest bought their way in, they'll doubtless pick up the flying with a mix of CL65s and E120s.