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YET MORE Mainline Flights Going to RJs--Hope someone is TALLYING all these!
1hr ago---off the newswire ( www.syracuse.com ):
Northwest slashes seating, drops Syracuse-Detroit flight
Thursday, June 11, 2009 By Rick Moriarty
Staff writer
Northwest Airlines, which recently merged with Delta Air Lines, is reducing its service between Syracuse and Detroit.
Northwest's flight schedule shows the airline will eliminate one of its four daily flights from Hancock Airport to Detroit on Aug. 18 and further reduce seating capacity on the route by using small jets - 50-seat CRJ's - instead of the larger, 120-seat DC-9 on two of the three flights. Currently, it uses DC-9 planes on three of the flights and the CRJ on one of them.
The switch in jets and the reduction of one flight a day will shrink the carrier's seating capacity on the route almost in half, from 410 to 220, according to information provided on the airline's Web site.
CRJ's can come in a stretch version, which contains 90 seats. However, the airline's Web site provides seating charts that show the 50-seat version. And the CRJ has no first-class section.
Northwest officials did not return a call seeking comment Wednesday.
Northwest's flights to Detroit are important to Syracuse because travelers from here can make connections from Detroit to many destinations in the West and Northwest. It provides the only nonstop flights between Syracuse and Detroit.
"Any time we lose a flight, any time we lose capacity, it is not good news," said Kevin Schwab, director of air service development for the Metropolitan Development Association, an economic development organization. "It gives passengers fewer options and puts upward pressure on fares."
Schwab said the Detroit service also is important because travelers can catch flights to Asia from Detroit. Business travel to Asia has been rising significantly in recent years, he said.
Northwest recently merged with Delta, and its name is being changed to Delta.
Syracuse Mayor Matt Driscoll said Northwest is making similar flight and capacity reductions in other cities in response to a drop in travel caused by the worst recession in decades.
He said it was "quite possible" Hancock will see more service reductions as airlines look for ways to cut costs.
The number of people flying in and out of the city-owned airport fell 11.5 percent in the first three months of this year, compared with the same period last year. "
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Isn't it time ALPA dumped RJ carriers? Maybe they wouldn't lose mainline carriers if they represented their interests! There should be a RALPA completely separate from ALPA. Is everyone SO desensitized that the only attitude is "nothing can stop it, oh well?". Please tell me pilots can take time from their busy schedules to help fight this kind of thing...it affects EVERYONE. ALPA should be LEADING and ORGANIZING a national effort involving pilots from even smaller mainline unions.
1hr ago---off the newswire ( www.syracuse.com ):
Northwest slashes seating, drops Syracuse-Detroit flight
Thursday, June 11, 2009 By Rick Moriarty
Staff writer
Northwest Airlines, which recently merged with Delta Air Lines, is reducing its service between Syracuse and Detroit.
Northwest's flight schedule shows the airline will eliminate one of its four daily flights from Hancock Airport to Detroit on Aug. 18 and further reduce seating capacity on the route by using small jets - 50-seat CRJ's - instead of the larger, 120-seat DC-9 on two of the three flights. Currently, it uses DC-9 planes on three of the flights and the CRJ on one of them.
The switch in jets and the reduction of one flight a day will shrink the carrier's seating capacity on the route almost in half, from 410 to 220, according to information provided on the airline's Web site.
CRJ's can come in a stretch version, which contains 90 seats. However, the airline's Web site provides seating charts that show the 50-seat version. And the CRJ has no first-class section.
Northwest officials did not return a call seeking comment Wednesday.
Northwest's flights to Detroit are important to Syracuse because travelers from here can make connections from Detroit to many destinations in the West and Northwest. It provides the only nonstop flights between Syracuse and Detroit.
"Any time we lose a flight, any time we lose capacity, it is not good news," said Kevin Schwab, director of air service development for the Metropolitan Development Association, an economic development organization. "It gives passengers fewer options and puts upward pressure on fares."
Schwab said the Detroit service also is important because travelers can catch flights to Asia from Detroit. Business travel to Asia has been rising significantly in recent years, he said.
Northwest recently merged with Delta, and its name is being changed to Delta.
Syracuse Mayor Matt Driscoll said Northwest is making similar flight and capacity reductions in other cities in response to a drop in travel caused by the worst recession in decades.
He said it was "quite possible" Hancock will see more service reductions as airlines look for ways to cut costs.
The number of people flying in and out of the city-owned airport fell 11.5 percent in the first three months of this year, compared with the same period last year. "
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Isn't it time ALPA dumped RJ carriers? Maybe they wouldn't lose mainline carriers if they represented their interests! There should be a RALPA completely separate from ALPA. Is everyone SO desensitized that the only attitude is "nothing can stop it, oh well?". Please tell me pilots can take time from their busy schedules to help fight this kind of thing...it affects EVERYONE. ALPA should be LEADING and ORGANIZING a national effort involving pilots from even smaller mainline unions.
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