Talk:Legacy carrier

message: ... probably time to shift "big six" to "big 5" ??? NWA is about to become a fallen flag. ++Lar: t/c 05:18, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merger of DL and NWA 

message: Although they are not generally refereed to as such, "Legacy carriers" do exist outside of the United States of America. There are many in other countries and I feel their airline should be mentioned.
A few examples that come to mind:
British Airways,
KLM,
Air France,
Lufthansa,
Qantas,
Mexicana de Aviación,
Air India.
I could go on.
I also feel more needs to be done to differentiate between these full service airlines and low cost carriers.
Please could we do something to make this page more inclusive of other cultures, perhaps we could start by renaming the page "Full Service Airlines"151.230.169.226 (talk) 14:12, 14 June 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: However "legacy carrier" refers to a specific US law, and therefore the term has no meaning outside the USA.Royalcourtier (talk) 02:23, 27 July 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: I have heard the term "legacy carrier" used often to describe other airlines globally, including all the examples above. The term does have meaning outside the USA. Very often people using this term are referring to more traditional airlines that are not low-cost. Regardless of whether it is used incorrectly or colloquially, it should be mentioned in the article to give a worldwide view, if suitable sources can be found. Sr88, talk. 14:53, 8 October 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  USA-centric? 

message: I am doubting the recent edit that cites a USA Today article which states "A government study recently found 61% of all advertised flights for American, Delta, United and US Airways (now merging with American) were operated by regionals in 2011, up from 40% in 2000."See Article I have a feeling that number includes other codeshare flights, operated by neither the mainline carrier, nor a regional affiliate. But because the article doesn't cite the "government study" that they get their info from. Does anyone have any other sources on this subject? HuffTheWeevil / talk / contribs 16:46, 24 September 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Accuracy of "61%" fact 

message: Legacy merely means dates from before 1978. Low-cost airlines can be new or old. The words are not opposites or antonyms. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Royalcourtier (talk • contribs) 02:21, 27 July 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Low cost not opposite of legacy 

message: The distinction between "transcontinental" and "regional" legacy carriers seems completely arbitrary, given that Alaska and Hawaiian both have flights to the East Coast, and to international destinations. Mirza Ahmed (talk) 19:45, 5 February 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: That distinction is, if you'll pardon the pun, a legacy of the pre-deregulation era, when national airlines with transcontinental route networks, such as TWA and American, were regulated differently than smaller airlines such as Allegany and Piedmont (the forerunners of USAir), which were treated as higher than true regional feeder services, but below the transcons. Of course, since deregulation things have changed, and now Alaska, for example, is a transcontinental airline, which they weren't before deregulation. oknazevad (talk) 01:28, 1 January 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Types? 

message: GRALISTAIR (talk) 23:42, 20 January 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: It is really an American term, I have removed the section as a US reference doesnt really indicate usage outside the US. Welcome to add with reliable non-US references. MilborneOne (talk) 15:49, 21 January 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Non US Legacy carriers

message: Why do some Wiki users insist on discounting Hawaiian Airlines and Alaska Airlines from the list of legacy airlines? Per the definition of a legacy US carrier, “ airline that had established interstate routes before the beginning of the route liberalization permitted by the Airline Deregulation Act of 1978 “ both Hawaiian and Alaska are legacy airlines.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tribaltech35 (talk • contribs) 06:52, 6 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Alaska/Hawaiian are technically legacy airlines  

message: On March 31, 2013, United merged with and into Continental, with Continental continuing as the surviving corporation of the Merger and as a wholly-owned subsidiary of UAL. Upon the closing of the Merger on March 31, 2013, Continental’s name was changed to “United Airlines, Inc.” (the “Survivor”). 
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/100517/000119312513140583/d514659d8k.htm 2601:646:9A00:8F70:402E:70CA:1937:5BD0 (talk) 17:26, 27 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  United was acquired by Continental