Talk:Regional airline
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[edit] Requested move
This page should be moved back to regional airline since it is mostly a general article about regional airlines. The suggestion that we need an article for each country or region's regional airlines does not seem reasonable. In general the purpose and use of regional airlines is similar around the world. By having one article, you avoid the need to duplicate the common data. If there are some differences, they can be addressed by adding a section on the unique difference. This is the way these differences are generally handled on other airline/airport articles like airport security. I'll clean up the aritcle to make it more generic. Vegaswikian 08:49, 1 November 2005 (UTC)
- Done. Rob Church Talk 22:43, 4 November 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Merge Commuter airline article
I propose that the Commuter airline article be merged into this article. The two articles cover much the same ground and do not appear to be describing different things. While it could be argued that there are subtle differences between commuters and regionals, the commuter article as it is currently written doesn't suggest there are any, and I think such arguments are tenuous at best anyway. Many regionals/commuters that provide shuttle services also serve remote/regional communities and could be considered to be both commuters and regionals. The Commuter article is also very North America-centric, which isn't a reason for merging it, but is should be made more general when merged. -- Adz|talk 11:41, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
[edit] why are they separate?
Especially in the case where a major airline has a regional airline as a wholly-owned subsidiary, why are these flights operated under separate cover instead of just as flights of the main airline? Does it have something to do with regulatory or labor issues that make "regional airline" flights cheaper to operate? --Delirium (talk) 07:29, 7 January 2008 (UTC)
- From what I understand it is mostly labor issues. However it does setup a descent platform for separating out work for bid, and making sure you're getting a good deal from the internal provider as you would from an external provider. I don't have sources for this though.. so.... —Cliffb (talk) 21:14, 7 January 2008 (UTC)
