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Apr 10, 2013, 8:16 am

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Originally Posted by AAExPlat

+1. At my home airport AUS, several of the AUS-EWR nonstops will be flown on E170s going forward and much of the AUS-IAH flights which were all 737 service on pmCO for the last decade are now on E145/E145/CRJ700 (and even some Q400). It's getting hard to fly UA out of AUS without flying a significant portion of a trip on regionals. Ludicrous. Capacity is way down.

In the meantime, AA zeroes out practically every flight in and out of AUS every time I fly (usually Tue and Thu but even this coming Sat). All on MD80s with far more service frequencies. UA is quite literally handing the AUS market to AA and SWA.

You actually prefer a 30-year-old MD80 that probably needs a 3rd D-check over a relatively new CRJ700 ?

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