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Bombardier CRJ-700 / CR7 New Configuration with First Class & Rollout (consolidated)
Dec 6, 2009, 7:16 am
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Thank goodness! I honestly think that the current CR7 lav is one of the most miserably cramped spaces I've entered in my life.
Dec 6, 2009, 7:40 am
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Dec 6, 2009, 7:44 am
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After the announcement of the addition of F to the CRJ's, and after one of the recent updates of the TravelDesk tool, I did a bit of searching into future flight schedules into LBB (my home base), as Eagle has had 1-2 CRJ flights into there (and a number of other small-market cities with short hops to DFW). All CRJ service into LBB is ending according to the schedule on about 5 January; on my flight yesterday on a CRJ, I asked the FA about it, and he confirmed that the CRJ's will be pulled from that routing about then ... for grins & amusement, I checked the schedules out to August, and they don't show back up at any point in the future on the short-haul small city runs that I've seen, tending to confirm the comments that those planes will be retasked for longer-haul flights between the hubs and larger cities (like the DFW-PIT route which is partially served by CRJ's currently). So much for my hopes of a nice seat all the way home. 
Dec 8, 2009, 4:55 pm
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That plan has changed slightly, with 11 to be based in Dallas. Still, though, from Dallas they will be largely used on longer routes or on some short routes with good premium demand (i.e. DFW-LIT), not short intra-Texas runs.
Dec 9, 2009, 3:22 am
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Interesting, though ... isn't that pretty much Mitsubishi's first aircraft since World War II?
Dec 9, 2009, 6:44 pm
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Dec 9, 2009, 9:20 pm
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My understanding on the latter is that it'll be 2014 until they start to enter service in these parts, through one of United Express/US Airways Express's operators, with the first batch of planes going to All-Nippon ...
Interesting, though ... isn't that pretty much Mitsubishi's first aircraft since World War II?
Interesting, though ... isn't that pretty much Mitsubishi's first aircraft since World War II?
Mitsubishi MU-2 (1963)
Mitsubishi MU-2 (1971)
Mitsubishi F-1 (1975)
Mitsubishi MU-300 / Diamond (1978)
Dec 9, 2009, 9:32 pm
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I absolutely love this and am thrilled that mainline is returning to LIT but why is there premium demand in this market? I don't usually find a lot of elites on my DFW-LIT flights. What businesses in this area would be paying for premium seats? At least in the northern corner of the state you have folks flying into Tyson and Wal Mart.
Dec 9, 2009, 9:56 pm
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I absolutely love this and am thrilled that mainline is returning to LIT but why is there premium demand in this market? I don't usually find a lot of elites on my DFW-LIT flights. What businesses in this area would be paying for premium seats? At least in the northern corner of the state you have folks flying into Tyson and Wal Mart.
Dec 9, 2009, 10:01 pm
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You'd be surprised the traffic heading to LIT from DFW. I did that flight every Sunday for almost 6 months (my times would vary, sometimes am flights, sometimes pm) and the aircraft was always at least 90% full! There were always at least 4-5 elites on the flights I was on...mostly GLD though.
Hopefully the agents at LIT will learn how to do priority boarding. They usually say priority boarding and 5 seconds later group one or whatever. If you aren't right by the door, you won't be first on board (overheard space is obviously a premium on this flight)
I don't think I've ever heard them board just ExP/PLAT as a group out of LIT.
Dec 9, 2009, 11:38 pm
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I absolutely love this and am thrilled that mainline is returning to LIT but why is there premium demand in this market? I don't usually find a lot of elites on my DFW-LIT flights. What businesses in this area would be paying for premium seats? At least in the northern corner of the state you have folks flying into Tyson and Wal Mart.
Dec 10, 2009, 12:47 am
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Ditto STL-JFK (892 miles).
This service hasn't started yet (right now its mainline into LGA which is staying in place AFAIK and eagle to EWR which is gone soon) but I would imagine there will be a good amount of premium pax connecting to to int'l flights ex-JFK.
I also would like to see some of these new birds on EWR-ORD (719) and I suspect we will, as this route was all mainline until the recent announcement.
This service hasn't started yet (right now its mainline into LGA which is staying in place AFAIK and eagle to EWR which is gone soon) but I would imagine there will be a good amount of premium pax connecting to to int'l flights ex-JFK.
I also would like to see some of these new birds on EWR-ORD (719) and I suspect we will, as this route was all mainline until the recent announcement.