Fewer regional jets and less service
Nov 27, 2011, 10:15 am
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Fewer regional jets and less service
A Washington Post article from Friday:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/todays...93_epaper.html
I thought it was interesting.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/todays...93_epaper.html
I thought it was interesting.
Nov 28, 2011, 9:29 am
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A Washington Post article from Friday:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/todays...93_epaper.html
I thought it was interesting.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/todays...93_epaper.html
I thought it was interesting.
Delta, United Continental and other big airlines are expected to park, scrap or sell hundreds of jets with 50 seats or fewer in coming years.
Which it ain't now
.
Nov 28, 2011, 7:48 pm
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As most of us probably know, the RJs and turboprops are all codeshares operated by smaller airlines. The majors (DL,UA etc.) do not own or operate them, and the smaller communities they typically serve are probably only economically viable in a bullish economy.
Which it ain't now .
Which it ain't now
.
Nov 28, 2011, 10:00 pm
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What's up with this? It kind of smells, doesn't it?
Nov 28, 2011, 10:10 pm
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Passengers from St. Cloud, Minn., which lost air service at the end of 2009, now have a 90-minute drive to the Minneapolis airport 65 miles to the southeast.
So small cities like St. Cloud have no air service - that's really news-worthy?
Pierre, S.D., will lose Delta flights to Minneapolis in mid-January. That might leave the state capital with only flights to Denver. Those flights add almost 600 miles in the wrong direction for people who want to fly from Pierre to Washington.
No offense, but this 1-sentence-paragraph story could have been written by an 8th grader using Wikipedia.
Nov 30, 2011, 3:13 pm
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The central issue is that 50-seat RJs are horribly uneconomic. Michael Boyd of aviationplanning.com has been predicting this for years and years, and now everyone's falling over stunned that "OMG THE RJ IS DEAD".