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I presume they are referring to the airline deregulation act of 1978. There used to be dozens of regional airlines whereas now we notably have 3-4 giant corpora
by colingoodman 3y ago
I presume they are referring to the airline deregulation act of 1978. There used to be dozens of regional airlines whereas now we notably have 3-4 giant corporations after decades of aggressive mergers and acquisitions.
https://airandspace.si.edu/stories/editorial/airline-deregulation-when-everything-changed https://airandspace.si.edu/stories/editorial/airline-deregul...
- kjkjadksj 3y agoYou’d be surprised but there are still regional airlines. This is because a company like delta franchises some routes basically. You might go on a delta flight and ride on a delta plane, but the operating company is some almost unheard of regional one.
- organsnyder 3y agoIn many cases that's just to skirt around various regulations and union contracts.
- kjkjadksj 3y agoI’d guess also you wouldn't have to handle the maintenance end of these smaller planes eg. your bombardiers and what have you if you’ve spun off all those flights