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In response to
"Yeah, we have a few, WestJet owns Swoop for instance. -- nm"
by
Andie
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At least a couple of the US airlines tried this back in the '00s decade.
Posted by
ty97
Apr 3 '23, 10:58
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In the US, the major airline unions all have 'scope clauses' in their contracts which restrict the regional airlines from flying any plane with more than 76 seats (think CRJ-900 or E175). And usually the contracts further restrict how many of those planes the regional can fly either as a fixed number or as a % of 'mainline' planes at the airline.
So Delta set up a leisure route subsidiary called Song that they sent a bunch of their 757 planes too and put them on routes like Florida
And United set up TED. (get it...United....Ted...ha ha..okay fine).
Neither lasted more than a few years.
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