Originally Posted by
SmitteyB
I don't know where you get your performance information, but Colgan IAH SF3 operation has a 99.6% controllable completion factor for the last 12-months rolling. Of which BPT-IAH is 99.8%.
42.6% of all statistics are made up......My information is from taking this route multiple times, noticed I said taken not flown because Colgan has put me on the "gound shuttle beaumont" van more times than I can count. But don't take my word for it go talk to the rammers, gate agents, or the guy that owns the van company who is making pimp sized grips of paper on canceled flights..... I'm not trying to start an argument here but the bottom line is that IMO Colgan's performance has been terriable for Beaumont and many other city's it serves and I'm simply trying to say that whoever moves into these routes and others has an up hill climb to regain the traveling publics confidence.
Aside from performance I always found the ticket prices for most of the SF340 routes from IAH to be outrageous and completely out of touch with the fact that 80% of these customers live within 2hrs of IAH. I'm not sure if this is a Colgan or United decision but if an operator were to come into these markets like Beaumont, College Station, Waco, Lake Charles ect.. and keep it around 100 bucks per segment, similar to what Silver has done in Montana, than I think you could be successful.