"So you just bought an airline ticket.
You wanted the cheapest fare, of course, but safety did cross your mind?
For that reason, you clicked on tickets being sold by legacy airlines.
Sure, it was a few bucks more — but you figured they’ve been in business a long time.
You might have heard about an accident they were involved in – but that was years ago.
Actually decades ago.
...Over the past couple of decades, however, the familiar landscape of the airline industry has changed dramatically. Now, smaller and lesser-known regional airlines carry roughly half of all domestic passengers for America’s “legacy” airlines.
Their airplanes are painted in the same livery as the legacy carrier(s) they code-share with, and their tickets are sold on the legacy’s website.
Passengers must read the fine print to learn that — although they purchased their tickets on American, United, or Delta’s website — they have about a 50/50 chance of being flown by an entirely different carrier.
And flown by pilots who work, not for their legacy airline, but for the code-share partner Regional airline.
So why does this matter?
After all, a pilot is a pilot — right?
Here’s where it starts to get very murky..."
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