Originally Posted by
spartacus
I always double connect OMA-MSP-DTW because direct to DTW are all CRJ. The C9 is a nice ride and I heard NW is buying them and the 175's at an accelerated pace, probably due to older DC9's going away.
Going to PHX on CO and last leg IAH-OMA Is ERJ, 2.5 hours. I sure hope it's better than CRJ but my schedule eliminated later 733 flight, but at $305 nobody else came close so I'll suck up and bite the 50% EQM bullet.
I understand that. I like flying on CO well enough, but STL doesn't have any mainline service from them at all. Both MKE and BNA come to mind as airports who are in the same boat regarding CO mainline. The ERJ isn't so bad, in fact it's pretty nice if you can get one of the A seats (which is the main reason people prefer it to the CRJ, I think).
I generally fly NW if/when I need to go to/through a CO hub, but sometimes the schedule doesn't work out and the non-stop ERJ is unavoidable. The worst part is I fly NW/SkyTeam over AA out of STL in large part because of all the ERJ flying, but avoiding the AA Connection RJ's to IAH and EWR just gets me on COEx RJ's instead!
