Originally Posted by
ljwobker
(Apologies if there's a way to find this via search)
Looking for flights RDU-IAH on the weekend of March 11-14, and the normal friday PM flights on CO simply don't show up. Not on continental.com, not on expertflyer, not on ITA...
is this some kind of mistake? It's almost impossible for me to believe that the demand for this route has ceased to exist on a friday after noon -- am I missing something here, or is CO really abandoning 35% of their capacity on this route (and presumably given that it's a friday PM flight, high margin capacity as well...)
CO isn't abandoning the route, they are using UA Express CR7 dba United Express for the 2:35pm and 5:30pm departures. These are the flights that are "circumventing the CO scope clause" so to speak. They are only sold as UA flight numbers but the EUA, Seating, and Airport Control is handled by CO.
Being Discussed
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/conti...al-pilots.html or
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/conti...2xx-range.html