Originally Posted by
3 green
Or the legacy carriers will shut down the regionals, and transfer the flying to mainline. Like Delta began to do with the 717's.
I was optimistic about this, as well, until Delta exercised their "club option" to extended RAH's 50-seat contract for five years. Now I'm not so sure.
My hope is that Delta is testing the economics of replacing regional feed with smaller mainline aircraft....and that is it wildly successful.