Originally Posted by
SamuelS
YAt least it's not as bad at Delta as it is over at United. They fly a CRJ-100 on 900+ mile routes like YYC-DEN which can be almost 3 hours onboard. There are often weight restrictions because the CRJ just wasn't designed to be the right bird to do 1,000 mile ranges with a full payload AND carry extra fuel for long alternate diversions in winter.

Yup, United/Skywest is our other major carrier which as been Dashs and now CRJ-minis to DEN but at least is a bearable experience since it's a little shorter than the MSP run and they've never given is F service so I don't expect much from them. I only use them when I'm flying right into DEN or our budgets people can't refuse their ticket price. Same for SLC with DL/Skywest for points West. Meanwhile American Eagle has just started with similar cramped service for RAP-DFW (you gotsta be kidding me - that far to a remote hub in a sardine can? What college did they go to learn to be
that dumb!).
I'd like to think that service will open up as summer comes with the tourists so we can not sit with the sloppy drunks going to Sturgis (just the rich poseurs and p*ssies who have their Hogs hauled to the airport). But I'm hopeful but not optimistic especially if they are promising other destinations F service at the expense of the rest of us.