You obviously don't know that executive. He is incharge of Network Planning. He decides where plane go, on which route. He doesn't like RJs as much now. That aint good. The previous President was Fred Greed, (who then left to start Virgin America, but was then run out because he wasn't an American Citizen) and he loved RJs. He said "Businessmen want FREQUENCY." That has turned out to be wrong, they want comfort, a place to work if they have to during the flights, and more room." We used to have CR7s flying SNA to DFW and onto DCA. That was crazy, but that was during the time Fred Greed was there, and he ordered a lot of RJs for ASA and Comair at the time. Did he ever order any for Virgin America? Nope, he learned his lesson. Now the current execs have to clean up that mess. Throw in high oil prices, and it really doesn't help the situation.
Got it yet 1015? Go enjoy Hibbing.
Bye Bye---General Lee
See.. This is where you screwed up. There are some on here that happen to deal with the marketing dept. @ mainline. You have not talked with them (radiant in your post) ; there are plenty of cities that mainline "needs" short term and with random frequency to be profitable and others that are just "off" of the overall hub pushes, yet still profitable. What "was" 50 seat flying WILL go away, cause 70 seat is more lucrative.
Problem is, most can't jump backwards & through hoops. DL's answer? The good ole "C-ya".
I stood back and watched for a while with plenty of laughs, but here, you are wrong in your viewpoint of how DL marketing works with DCI.
50 Seats will go, but only as a yield to 50+ seats. Attack me all you want, but scope will loosen. I hope to fly boxes myself, but it is what it is for the pax side. A "no furlough, 3% raise, keep section 28", will suffice. If you say "NO", you age yourself.
Cheers.