Originally Posted by
rickair7777
The customers only dislike it to the extent that they're cramped and have to gate-check their carry-ons...and the E-175s will fix that eventually (too bad bombardier went off tilting at windmills with the c-series instead of updating their RJ's). Pax are perfectly happy with the low price and high frequency, and nobody but the colgan relatives cares about pilot experience level...many pax assume flying is SUPPOSED to be dangerous, and count themselves lucks to survive any given flight
Of course many individual mainline pilots don't like it, but the reality is that the big unions are NOT falling all over themselves to fix the regional problem because they'd have to tell their constituents to pony up for the cost difference (management won't be giving it away).
I agree with most of this. But RJ flights aren't cheaper. In many cases they're actually more expensive because they go to monopolized destinations.
Last week we looked up the price of a RT ticket on one of the routes we frequently fly at my carrier from DCA. It was around $1000 for a ticket on that 90 minute flight. It's frequently a full flight.