Originally Posted by
badflaps
Why would the company expand 76 seaters when clearly the loads show a larger A/C is required? TYS added four 717's and is still under served.
In an ATL centric world you'd think we got rid of RJs for the most part. Then you go to DTW or MSP and realize oh yes there are still 500+ of those things running around compared to our
domestic fleet of about 600.
On airliners.net, airline porn site, someone had compiled a statistic from winter 2014 showing how many DAL flights by hub were mainline vs regional.
ATL 70% mainline. Neat.
DT
W 35% mainline and 65% DCI.
MSP 40% mainline and 60% DCI.
LGA 27% mainline and 73% DCI.
SLC 39% mainline and 61% DCI.
JFK 61% mainline and 39% DCI.
LAX 52% mainline and 48% DCI.
CVG 21% mainline and 79% DCI.
Holding off on the remaining 30 76-seaters is probably not because they have second thoughts about regional jets, if that was the case why order 40?
In fact, someone was telling me just yesterday that supposedly our guys went to pick up a 717 and it was still in AirTran paint. Supposedly it had to be delivered because of a 76-seater showed up too early. I wasn't there, I don't know.