Presumably, hopefully, these savings are passed on to passengers.Īs is the case with all partner airlines, passengers book flights on Republic without knowing it, going through the purchase process with American, Delta, or United, whose liveries Republic’s aircraft wear. These newer planes are also lighter, which provide better fuel economy and help keep operating costs low. Whereas other subsidiary or partner carriers operate mostly with the Embraer 145, Republic proudly displays its fleet of newer Embraer 170 and Embraer 175 aircraft. Like other regional partners, Republic Airlines operates a fleet of small jets. In partnership with these carriers, Republic flies mostly to cities in the Midwest and along the East Coast. Its major-carrier partners are United, American, and Delta. Republic Airlines operates out of Indianapolis, Houston, Miami, and ten other crew bases. Yet again, this regional partner is brought down by the larger airlines it serves. Partner airlines often fly to small, regional airports that cannot accommodate large planes or that do not attract enough traffic to merit sending in the jumbo jets. SkyWest is one of the smaller partner airlines that helps them operate their massive route networks. airlines because of their scope or as “legacy carriers” because of their long histories. American, Delta, and United are known as “The Big Three” of U.S. SkyWest flies in partnership with Alaska Airlines, American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, and United Airlines. You can fly from coast to coast on a plane operated by SkyWest, even if you have multiple connections through different airlines. George, Utah, SkyWest boasts on its official website of operating over 2,000 flights daily and carrying millions of passengers monthly to 254 destinations across the North American continent. SkyWest Airlines appears on this list as the first of those smaller airlines whose ranking here is made or broken by the qualities of the larger carriers with whom they partner. Neil Crone described Air Canada as like any other airline-crowded, slow, and with terrible food-and said its high rating was perhaps not saying much. The CBC interviewed one traveler who had been stranded at the Toronto airport for twelve hours while on his way to Florida. On an online airline review forum, posters consistently wrote about hours-long delays and logistical nightmares during their travels with Air Canada. Power assessment.įrequent delays were cited as the main complaint against Air Canada. Unsurprisingly, the CBC came down cautiously in favor of the J. For comparison, the same poll showed that Air Canada Rouge, the budget carrier subsidiary of the Canadian national airline, was ranked ninety-ninth out of a hundred in North American carriers. The firm gave it a score of 709, placing it in the category of "the rest" as opposed to "the best." Even the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) cast doubt on the methodology of a completely contradictory online poll that showed Air Canada ranking as the top North American airline. Poor Air Canada receives the lowest score of all traditional airlines flying in North America, according to J.D. Our Neighbor to the North will at least keep its reputation for being nice, saying sorry excessively, and having an attractive prime minister. Rankings from industry experts and consumer surveys went into compiling this list, along with some of my personal experiences flying the friendly-ish skies. Much of the air traffic in the US goes through regional airlines, which inherently have a smaller list of destinations, so it may not be fair to compare them to an international carrier.Ĭomfort, convenience, cost, choice of destinations, friendliness of staff, and an airline’s management practices went into compiling this far-from-authoritative list of the best and worst airlines flying in the U.S. While everyone loves a good deal, a seasoned business traveler has a different idea of a “cheap ticket” than a college student (me) heading to Florida for spring break as a result, it is somewhat difficult to class low fare or ultra-low fare carriers against more traditional airlines. For different kinds of travelers, different factors rise to the front. I think we can all agree on that.Īside from these fundamental issues, there is little agreement on what an airline ‘should’ be. Oh, and we would like to get to our destination alive and in one piece, if that is not too much to ask. Once we finally get to our destination, we want our bags to be waiting for us, and not on their way to the other side of the planet in the belly of another carrier’s plane. Unlikely as it may be that we actually do, we still keep hoping. We want it to get us where we want to go. When it comes to what travelers want in an airline, we can agree on a few, fundamental things.
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