No more LGA base for PDT

[Captainzero1]

Where is Delta getting large regional jets from? Republic/ASA/Comair or Pinnacle

 

[CRJ puppy]

Where is Delta getting large regional jets from? Republic/ASA/Comair or Pinnacle

I think you are reading the anouncement incorrectly...I think they were saying that regional jets were larger than the turboprops currently flying those routes...hence the phrase...' those cities will be served by larger regional jets...'

Think about it.

 

[filejw]

Delta expects to more than double the number of nonstop destinations it serves from LaGuardia by adding or preserving service to more than 30 small- and medium-sized communities. The airline plans to add new flights to more than a dozen cities not currently served by US Airways. In every slot where US Airways operates small turboprops today, Delta will operate larger jets. These new markets and larger aircraft would allow more than two million additional passengers to transit LaGuardia each year without increasing the total number of takeoffs and landings.

Doesn't say regional jets, just jets...who really knows but the next rumor is an A320 base for mainline....

 

[General Lee]

Delta expects to more than double the number of nonstop destinations it serves from LaGuardia by adding or preserving service to more than 30 small- and medium-sized communities. The airline plans to add new flights to more than a dozen cities not currently served by US Airways. In every slot where US Airways operates small turboprops today, Delta will operate larger jets. These new markets and larger aircraft would allow more than two million additional passengers to transit LaGuardia each year without increasing the total number of takeoffs and landings.

Doesn't say regional jets, just jets...who really knows but the next rumor is an A320 base for mainline....

A lot of the routes we just aquired were flown by Dash-8s and Saab 340s. They will be upgraded to CRJs and E175s probably, with a couple cities maybe getting an A319 or DC9 possibly. I think current routes from LGA to FLA may get larger mainline planes (A320s or 757s) instead of current MD88s or A319s---hence larger mainline planes. I have heard rumors of the DL Shuttle getting DC9s, or maybe A319s. Who knows?


Bye Bye--General Lee

 

[altimaklr]

I'm sure ATC will love more DC9s going into LGA that can't do any kind of RNAV arrival.

 

[Kaman]

Woner what and who will serve HYA, ACK and MVY next summer?

 

[Cpt Oveur]

Everyone will be rotated through I'm sure. Mesaba's 340's, Comair's 700s and 200s, Shuttle's 170/175s, Pinnacle's 200s, heck, why not ASA or Freedom or even Skywest?

 

[Superpilot92]

A lot of the routes we just aquired were flown by Dash-8s and Saab 340s. They will be upgraded to CRJs and E175s probably, with a couple cities maybe getting an A319 or DC9 possibly. I think current routes from LGA to FLA may get larger mainline planes (A320s or 757s) instead of current MD88s or A319s---hence larger mainline planes. I have heard rumors of the DL Shuttle getting DC9s, or maybe A319s. Who knows?


Bye Bye--General Lee

Are you sure we will be flying only to those same destinations that Usair was flying to and that we wont be adding new destinations? Sure we wont do LGA to Islip but nothing says that we wont start new service either.

For the DC9 haters out there, i hate to break it to you but the DC9 already flys into LGA all day long, works great since most of the approaches and arrivals in there are vectors followed by a published visual approach. :beer:

 

[Superpilot92]

Everyone will be rotated through I'm sure. Mesaba's 340's, Comair's 700s and 200s, Shuttle's 170/175s, Pinnacle's 200s, heck, why not ASA or Freedom or even Skywest?

i have no doubt that some of the flying will be flown by regionals but not all of it. DAL is on the warpath to repair the product and they know that RJ's arent the way to do it, especially since they are trying to compete with Jetblue as the NYC airline. We'll see

 

[Captainzero1]

Woner what and who will serve HYA, ACK and MVY next summer?

That's going to be a real money maker from LGA in an RJ.