Originally Posted by
Cruz5350
I rode on a 1900 the other day and I can see why pax wouldn't like it, but the fuel burns are miserly compared to the small jets. If they pax want cheap tickets they are going to have to sacrifice something. That's just my opinion though.
Fuel burns are but one cost in the running of an airline. No matter what the aircraft, it's easy to break even on the direct operating costs. The overhead of running an airline and the aircraft ownership costs, now that's another story. A BE1900 has a low cost structure, but an extremely low revenue generation capability. Compare now to XJT.....much bigger company. The marginal cost of adding a few E135's back will not appreciably increase overhead, so as long as these aircraft can break even on their direct costs XJT is still coming out ahead.
But what do I know, I did the management thing for a little while......