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Aug 21, 2002 | 1:22 pm

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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by FT wannabe:

You said mileage runners help to fill up planes - TRUE! But without the mileage runners, the airlines should be able to fly smaller airplanes or reduce schedule...

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Mileage runners are such a small % of the flying population that if all mileage runners bailed at once, it would have such an immaterial impact on any one airline. The abscense of mileage runners are not going to allow the airline to downsize a plane. there are just not enough of them to affect the size of aircraft on a route.

Also, do you think that the abscense of a few low fare MR's on a trans con (say EWR-LAX) on a 738 are going affect what plane is on that route, what are they going to put an RJ on the route?

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