Originally Posted by
knobcrk
Article mentions it a lot but never explains it. Why exactly will it be cheaper for the majors to run their ops vs a regional feed?
Same reason Southwest doesn't have RJ feed. Filling larger planes is way more profitable than smaller ones.
If 150 people are going from AtoB through a Hub, is 6 RJ flights cheaper or one direct 737?
He's saying their going to cherry pick more city's parings requiring less hub traffic, combined with the fact that some of the spoke traffic was solely created to fill a hub departure which is no longer needed. That was what he meant by revenue potential.