Originally Posted by
hotchocolate
... and they all seem to be various hopper flights on planes like the RJ-900 or the smallish 737 at the largest (and even those are short).
Clearly you've never been on small planes.
While the CRJs are small jets, 737 are certainly not. A Cessna Caravan or Beechcraft 1900 are small commercial airplanes.
Originally Posted by
hotchocolate
Do airlines just not fly the bigger jets like the 747 or the 757 domestically anymore, except maybe LAX to LGA?
The 737 and A320 have the range to fly pretty much all domestic routes (apart from a couple of exceptions) and smaller planes but more frequent flights is generally preferred by customers. A 747 is just waste of good airplane on those routes.