Update the forum description?
Oct 10, 2021, 3:10 pm
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Oct 10, 2021, 3:13 pm
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You raise a good point. I don't know that Wikipedia is authoritative, but here is what it says:
Some cities in Alaska's network with less traffic are served by regional airline partners under a capacity purchase agreement. Under that agreement, the regional airline is paid to operate and maintain aircraft used on flights that are scheduled and marketed by Alaska Airlines. Alaska's airline partners include wholly-owned regional subsidiary Horizon Air and carrier SkyWest Airlines.
I'm going to see how this thread evolves before making any more changes to the forum description.
Some cities in Alaska's network with less traffic are served by regional airline partners under a capacity purchase agreement. Under that agreement, the regional airline is paid to operate and maintain aircraft used on flights that are scheduled and marketed by Alaska Airlines. Alaska's airline partners include wholly-owned regional subsidiary Horizon Air and carrier SkyWest Airlines.
I'm going to see how this thread evolves before making any more changes to the forum description.
Oct 10, 2021, 5:25 pm
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I have browser bookmarks for my favorite individual forums and only occasionally visit the list of forums when, as recently with BA, I have a trip coming up with an airline or hotel that I don’t usually follow. But for someone (new) exploring the forums having descriptions can certainly be helpful.
Oct 17, 2021, 4:26 pm
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SkyWest is not unique to AS (the way Horizon and Ravn are):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SkyWest_Airlines
SkyWest Airlines is an Americanregional airline headquartered in St. George, Utah, United States. SkyWest is paid to staff, operate and maintain aircraft used on flights that are scheduled, marketed and sold by a partner mainline airline. The airline is contracted by Alaska Airlines (as Alaska SkyWest), American Airlines (as American Eagle), Delta Air Lines (as Delta Connection), and United Airlines (as United Express).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SkyWest_Airlines
SkyWest Airlines is an Americanregional airline headquartered in St. George, Utah, United States. SkyWest is paid to staff, operate and maintain aircraft used on flights that are scheduled, marketed and sold by a partner mainline airline. The airline is contracted by Alaska Airlines (as Alaska SkyWest), American Airlines (as American Eagle), Delta Air Lines (as Delta Connection), and United Airlines (as United Express).
Oct 18, 2021, 9:32 am
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SkyWest is not unique to AS (the way Horizon and Ravn are):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SkyWest_Airlines
SkyWest Airlines is an Americanregional airline headquartered in St. George, Utah, United States. SkyWest is paid to staff, operate and maintain aircraft used on flights that are scheduled, marketed and sold by a partner mainline airline. The airline is contracted by Alaska Airlines (as Alaska SkyWest), American Airlines (as American Eagle), Delta Air Lines (as Delta Connection), and United Airlines (as United Express).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SkyWest_Airlines
SkyWest Airlines is an Americanregional airline headquartered in St. George, Utah, United States. SkyWest is paid to staff, operate and maintain aircraft used on flights that are scheduled, marketed and sold by a partner mainline airline. The airline is contracted by Alaska Airlines (as Alaska SkyWest), American Airlines (as American Eagle), Delta Air Lines (as Delta Connection), and United Airlines (as United Express).
Oct 18, 2021, 3:37 pm
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Not sure how Ravn got roped into this. Ravn is an independent airline, with its own ownership, reservation system, and even loyalty program. They have codeshares with AS and are mileage-earning partners with Mileage Plan, but I don't believe they have any sort of capacity agreement with Alaska the way that SkyWest does. They're no more unique to AS than any codeshare partner. In fact, they're kinda less-so since you don't earn EQM on Ravn flights, and there are some flights (ANC-FAI) that can't be credited to MP at all, though they can be credited to FlyCoin.
Oct 18, 2021, 10:27 pm
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Not sure how Ravn got roped into this. Ravn is an independent airline, with its own ownership, reservation system, and even loyalty program. They have codeshares with AS and are mileage-earning partners with Mileage Plan, but I don't believe they have any sort of capacity agreement with Alaska the way that SkyWest does. They're no more unique to AS than any codeshare partner. In fact, they're kinda less-so since you don't earn EQM on Ravn flights, and there are some flights (ANC-FAI) that can't be credited to MP at all, though they can be credited to FlyCoin.
Anyway- I like it as it is now. ^
Oct 18, 2021, 11:08 pm
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