Talk:Major airlines of the United States

message: The article has a list of current major carriers.  But, is there any guarantee that someone will edit the article when the list needs to be updated due to changes in the industry?  Instead of "current", the article should use the "As of" followed by a date style.  206.53.197.24 (talk) 02:49, 8 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Current? 

message: US DOT BTS (Bureau of Transportation Statistics) considers only revenue in its airline groupings, although it doesn't use the term "major".
http://www.bts.gov/programs/airline_information/accounting_and_reporting_directives/number_263.html
Dusty.crockett (talk) 19:27, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Major Airline Definition 

message: This information is a list of the major certificated airline carriers with x amount of dollars of business.........not the independent affiliates and, express, connection, airlink, brands....
Suggestion chart be removed  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.200.136.208 (talk) 12:31, 2 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: The gray chart needs to be removed

message: Hi. I have tagged with article with  due to the article only talking about US carriers and not airlines from other parts of the world. Thanks --JetBlast (talk) 22:18, 20 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  World Wide View 

message: These are NOT mainline airlines.  They use mainline sized aircraft though.  I am sure previous edits were simply misguided by poorly  informed though well intentioned.
I could be wrong though, perhaps Southwest Airlines or Virgin Airlines have subcontracted out flying to airlines that fly aircraft with less than 74-100 seats.  I could have missed the latest news.
*Frontier Airlines
*JetBlue
*Southwest Airlines
*Spirit Airlines
*Virgin America  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.54.32.152 (talk) 00:38, 18 January 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: These are indeed mainline airlines in that they fly mainline-sized aircraft on their own behalf. Calling an airline mainline is not limited to network carriers that subcontract feeder flights to the regionals. Your understanding of the terms is completely wrong. As is your understanding of the Wikipedia manual of style, based on your other edits. Section headers are not to contain links and are not used in place of bulleted lists. Please review these items before continuing. oknazevad (talk) 01:23, 18 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Quick Note 

message: I would like to seek consensus to change the headings. As of now, they are:
 Mainline passenger
 Regional airlines
 Freight carriers
As of now, the first heading is called Mainline passenger. But regionals also carry passengers, so I'm not sure why this is left off in the regional heading. I suspect the odd repetitive rhythm that would have resulted from calling it Mainline airline is why they're not both just called "airlines". As it stands now they are clumsily mixed — "Mainline" is paired with "passenger" while "Regional" is paired with "airlines". I also suspect the reason why the  third heading is called Freight carrier is the popular misconception that only airlines carry people. I suggest it be changed to the following:
 Mainline passenger airlines   OR   Mainline passenger
 Regional passenger airlines   OR   Regional passenger
 Freight airlines              OR   Freight
Rationale: 
Switching to these newer headings would use the standard phrase airlines after one of the three distinctions  (e.g., Mainline passenger / Regional passenger / Freight). OR for brevity, these could be narrowed down to just Mainline passenger / Regional passenger / Freight and drop the airline part altogether. The only problem with this might be the terminology of "regional" versus mainline. Are these terms outdated? It's illustrative to note that in the one DOT source the Major airlines of the United States article is based on, those particular distinctions have been abandoned. Also I noticed the discussion a few years ago regarding the name of the headings, and the use of WikiLinks with them. I'm wondering shouldn't these be changed as well (and by 'changed' I mean turned off). Anyone please chime in.  Spintendo  18:10, 17 November 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Either is fine by me. Brevity is good, so I cannot disagree with simply removing the word "airline" while adding "passenger" to the regionals for clarity.  I'll take care of that. As for the wikilinks, WP:MOSHEAD is pretty clear about them not being linked, so I'll take care of that as well. oknazevad (talk) 20:27, 17 November 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Revisit of Headings 

message: I'd like to propose a different way of displaying the information on the page. Looking for feedback on this: 
*Group III airlines
**Mainline passenger
***Alaska Airlines
***Allegiant Air
***American Airlines
***Delta Air Lines
***Frontier Airlines
***Hawaiian Airlines
***JetBlue
***Southwest Airlines
***Spirit Airlines
***United Airlines
**Regional passenger
***Envoy Air (subsidiary of American Airlines Group)
***Republic Airways
***SkyWest Airlines
**Cargo
***Atlas Air
***FedEx Express
***Kalitta Air
***Polar Air Cargo (subsidiary of Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings)
***UPS Airlines
***USA Jet Airlines
I think this shows the relationships a bit better than the standard list. Since we have more than a handful of dedicated local editors who are interested in this page, I thought I'd propose it here and get everyone's feedback. Is this possible or is it completely unnecessary.... please feel free to share your thoughts. Please note, I'm trying to find a better reference for the big four claim per WP:STATISTA, so that will obviously be changing as soon as I locate one. Thanks for your feedback!  Spintendo  02:43, 7 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Display of information proposal