KingAirer
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It wouldn't come a moment too soon for business traveler Chick.
"I hate those little things," he said.
This guy is probably 300lbs and 6'7.
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It wouldn't come a moment too soon for business traveler Chick.
"I hate those little things," he said.
General Lee said:jarhead,
Please, please re-read the article. Not all passengers are just looking for low fares. It looks like the passengers we WANT, the last minute high fare ones, continually look for ways to AVOID RJs. Don't take it from me, read the article again. Now sometimes they don't have a choice--like the DFW-CLE routing (in the article). But, if they do---they will avoid RJs on long flights and happily go AA on their MD80s.
Bye Bye--General Lee
What?? The fact that the rj's are losing their luster has nothing to do with you or me. The animosity is comming from pax who can either fly on an rj or a A320, B717, B777 etc, etc. The fact that they are choosing to fly on bigger aircraft and on the competition is the reason the rj's will slowly reduce in numbers.....not because a mainline or DCI pilot is flying them.shamrock said:Do you think there would be such animosity towards RJs on this board if there were DAL pilots up front?
Just a thought.
You Delta guys all forget that Delta launched a full-on attack of AA in DFW (with mainline of course) in the early 90s. That didn't work either, and doomed Delta to be a sorry shell of a third-class player in the D/FW market.FDJ2 said:I guess that's why all the mainline airplanes got pullled out of DFW and there will only be RJs flying out of there now. OOPPs, I got that wrong.
JMO, but it would seem that with over 200 RJ departures out of DFW those self financing, super profitable RJs should have beat up on AA.
Good post. Look, 50-seat RJs should be used on routes that don't compete with larger, low-cost carrier aircraft. That should be a rule because many passengers would prefer the larger aircraft and the economics don't work as well for the 50-seater (can't spread the costs very well over 50 seats and make a profit with low fares for each seat). I am talking about LCC competitive routes - not thinner routes with no competition.wil said:In an ideal world my job is to feed passengers to mainline aircraft. Also, intiate service to new cities that hopefully will later support a mainline aircraft. Our RJ's were never the long term answer and obviously not the short term with regard to DFW.
But, I don't want to read people complaining when they do not want to pay a fair price to travel. More people are traveling but they are not paying fares that support the system.
If mainline doesn't grow we are all in a world of hurt! It shouldn't take a rocket scientist to figure that out!! Cheers, Wil