Originally Posted by
WorldLux
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.
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.
I've flown in DH beavers and Cessna's for both work and pleasure for about 20 years (: I was referring to large-scale commercial flying. I shouldn't say the A320 or 737 are "small" either, I'm thinking of anything smaller than six seats across in coach as small. It just seems to be very difficult to find a route that flies even the 737/A320 size anymore, and especially hard to find one with "lie down" seating. It also seems difficult to find a route that flies the 737 or A320 all the way unless it's maybe CA to NY. MPLS to LGA or JFK? Good luck, it seems they are all "stick of gum" jets, even from SEA.