The SKW mgt will learn soon enough what the CHQ mgt team has finally picked up on.
THERE WILL BE NO flying for anything larger than 50 seat a/c under the CAL brand. CAL recently announced that it was canceling service to DAB. They are reducing RJ capacity, not adding it. SKW will most likely do CAL flying, it will however not be on the scale that XJT does. Nor will XJT frankly ever operate a fleet as large as they do not for CAL.
All this pissing and moaning is about a small contract to operate these RJ's few a few years. My guess is SKW will operate perhaps 50 ERJ's, XJT will operate 50 or so and the Q400's will keep coming. The 73's have recently been put back on markets like CMH, BWI, DCA, RDU and many others that used to be nothing but RJ's.
The RJ market is in big trouble. Their future is very limited, ie no great expansion.
In a few years SKW will be parking these things in the desert in numbers.
THERE WILL BE NO flying for anything larger than 50 seat a/c under the CAL brand. CAL recently announced that it was canceling service to DAB. They are reducing RJ capacity, not adding it. SKW will most likely do CAL flying, it will however not be on the scale that XJT does. Nor will XJT frankly ever operate a fleet as large as they do not for CAL.
All this pissing and moaning is about a small contract to operate these RJ's few a few years. My guess is SKW will operate perhaps 50 ERJ's, XJT will operate 50 or so and the Q400's will keep coming. The 73's have recently been put back on markets like CMH, BWI, DCA, RDU and many others that used to be nothing but RJ's.
The RJ market is in big trouble. Their future is very limited, ie no great expansion.
In a few years SKW will be parking these things in the desert in numbers.