Originally Posted by
JustaGoodGuy
I see that starting November 1, Delta is upgauging the MKE-LGA route for one flight per day to a 717. This is good news for the route. I think that we all knew that it was coming, but it is nice to see that (for now) they are keeping the 5 flights per day. Hopefully the eventual upgauging on this route will not reduce the daily frequency. My guess is that we will always have one or two RJ's on the route, which is fine, because its nice to have the 5 flights per day.
That's still a long time away from now. They could even possibly narrow it down to only 4 daily flights. If I can take a guess, the last batch of 717's being delivered to Delta are focusing on some flights from LGA to reduce the amount of flights and a lot of other costs. As LGA gets delayed flights a lot due to so many flights with only one runway used at a time. Like narrowing down from 5 flights to only 4 would likely reduce delays.