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Old Nov 4, 2009 | 8:18 pm
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Originally Posted by 8C4IOW
Not for me and I'm average height and weight. I fly to OMA and IND from Milwaukee quite often. The flights to Indy, which are closer to an hour, may be short but they still suck on a CRJ 200. If the seat is not open next to you it feels like a 5hr flight. I am glad I don't have to be on one of those again to those cities. Bad choice of aircraft for AirTran, in my opinion.
I don't think there was any choice on the type of aircraft. SkyWest had no home for these planes...I think they approached FL about this deal. Better to have them fly at a marginal loss than not produce any cash flow at all.
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