Originally Posted by
What
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!
Originally Posted by
PerpetualFlyer
There's a reason ExpressJet is pulling 135's out of the desert... The Colgan flying is going back to them and I'm sure Skywest will take some of it too. I hope to god that none of it goes to the bottom feeder that is Silver...
Your making my point for me, replacing a SF340 with a 135 makes about as much since as selling life insurance at a funeral home. Someone is going to have to take this flying and my question is who? There's only a handful of us 121 Tprop operators left (lakes, cape air, horizon, pen air and 1 or 2 more) and of that group I don't see anyone other than Silver who could fill the void that Colgan is going to leave on 90% of the SF340 routes....