dispatchguy
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TWA Dude said:My biggest beef: pilots blaming other pilots for management's decisions. To Angus: no Regional/Commuters/Small Jet operators take any flying from Mainline; it's given to them by Mainline management.
Truer words were never spoken! It is your flying when the flights are sold under your airlines 2-letter ATA code, and the ticket stock says "Issued by: Trans States Airlines", "Issued by: Chautauqua Airlines", etc. Even the AX code meant American, just not American Eagle nor American Airlines.
When you do your own flying, under your own airline code, listed as your own flying in the Official Airline Guide (not as a regional partner for a mainline), then its your own flying. When its flying not subject to an Air Services Agreement with a mainline carrier, then its your own flying.
Mainline management could care less about who flies between A and B on any given month, and they'll all rob Peter to pay Paul if any one of them can do it for 1/2 a cent less in CASM.