Originally Posted by
CANAM
Independence Air, ExpressJet and now Republic. For some reason, the regionals are unable to break through and compete on their own. While I'm not a business expert and have no idea why this is, I have no doubt that others will attempt the jump and again fall short.
It is the network.
There is a reason why the airline business has become a struggle to grow SkyTeam, One World and Star Alliance, that is where the action is for higher yielding traffic. The other model is pseudo charter.
Unfortunately the best point to point airline in the World does not work as well from O&D market to O&D, whether it be Frontier, or Virgin Atlantic.