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Even before Pinnacle filling CH11 they were parking their Saabs, now they will do it at an accelerated rate, the parking of these airplanes was driven by mainline. You can keep dreaming that Silver will just pick up the flying that others are dropping but these airlines are dropping the flying for a reason!
This is the reason why I asked if the IAH/IAD flying is 100% EAS or if there are some revenue flights. The EAS routes, wherever they are, will be flown by someone the DOT requires it and someone somewhere will pick up the flying. What my concern is the SF340 flying currently done at least at IAH make's absolute no since without EAS funding. I.E. 5 flights a day to Beaumont which is 1.5hr drive? I actually think that these routes (IAH-BPT,LCH, ACT ect....) would make more since for the 1900 than the Saab since these things are empty 90% of the time.