Originally Posted by
Beckles
Again, and I already posted it, this is a complete misrepresentation of the relationship between CO and XJet in my opinion, here it is again since you apparently missed it in my previous post:
That is a lot more than a "marketing agreement" as is clearly laid out. I didn't post it previoulsy, but CO is also responsible for paying for fuel and the planes themselves. In reality all XJet does is hire and pay employees, everything else that XJet does is controlled by CO.
That may all be true, except that the FAA operating certificate for these flight reads ExpressJet and not CAL.
Since ExpressJet is thus the operator, they maintain operational responsibility and liability. This is obviously not a coincidence.
P.S.: Regional carriers pay for the fuel they use, regardless of whether it is supplied via the mainline carrier or another source