Originally Posted by
Vermando
It's because if you live in Louisiana and not New Orleans, Houston and CO are incredibly convenient, yet all the connections are with those freaking RJs. To take a 8, 10, or 12 hour transcon in beautiful BF, and then to connect to one of those pieces of junk, hoping you'll be in seat 12A. Really, it's a disgrace and frustration to everyone in the state.
But it's a short flight from IAH to anywhere in Louisiana. If your flight weren't operated with an ERJ or a turboprop, it probably wouldn't exist.
Originally Posted by
Steph3n
It is a short hop to IAH....I have a 1 hour prop flight at the start and end of every one of my trips, I enjoy it and sleep through them now. the buzzing engines and swaying of the low altitude flying is just a cradle
See,
Steph3n can do it!
Originally Posted by
controller1
Agree. Unfortunately, in a week I have a 1,200-mile/3-hour flight (ORF-IAH) on a CO RJ.
Now
here's where I have a beef with CO. As I've stated many times, I'm cool with Q400s on routes like EWR-ALB and with ERJs on routes like EWR-GSO. But when CO puts Q400s on longer routes (EWR-RDU, EWR-MYR) and ERJs on
really long routes (like the aforementioned IAH-ORF), that's when I have a problem. Perhaps we'll get some good news in this department with the merger, a new contract with the pilots, etc...