LazyLightnin'
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He also said that the fifty-seat flying was by far the least profitable flying Delta has.
Wow...This guy makes millions just to tell us that filling up a 777 to Rome can make DL more money than an RJ from ATL to Montgomery?
Who'd a thunkit?
It's funny how these CEO's can only think in terms of RASM, CASM et cetera without giving any thought whatsoever to the way that the system works. 50 seat airplanes work fine in the appropriate markets. In those same markets the larger aircraft would lose money.
The larger small aircraft (76 seats) fill a niche as well. Their crews are far cheaper than the legacy pilots and the operating expense is not much more than the 50 seater. So what's killing the 50 seaters? The 76 seaters, and they are capped.
As far as the 50 seaters not being profitable, if they weren't at all profitable, they'd be gone tomorrow. They just aren't as profitable as the larger a/c.[/QUOTE]
RJs are not profitable on competitive routes. You just can't spread costs across 50 seats that easily in a competitive market. But you need feed from smaller towns to fill the big widebodies.... The point is that there will always be a need for some RJs on non-competitive routes - just not as many as we have now... Watch more fuel efficient and great capacity props like the Q400 become more popular in the future for the feed...
It's funny how these CEO's can only think in terms of RASM, CASM et cetera without giving any thought whatsoever to the way that the system works. 50 seat airplanes work fine in the appropriate markets. In those same markets the larger aircraft would lose money.
The larger small aircraft (76 seats) fill a niche as well. Their crews are far cheaper than the legacy pilots and the operating expense is not much more than the 50 seater. So what's killing the 50 seaters? The 76 seaters, and they are capped.
As far as the 50 seaters not being profitable, if they weren't at all profitable, they'd be gone tomorrow. They just aren't as profitable as the larger a/c.
Wow...This guy makes millions just to tell us that filling up a 777 to Rome can make DL more money than an RJ from ATL to Montgomery?
Who'd a thunkit?