Originally Posted by
Waitingformins
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.
CRJ 900 is 76-79 seats, 737 is around 140? Where do you get 6 or 7 RJ's? Also, frequency is important, more daily flights means more flying passengers. People complain about Spirit, but it's not their seating, it's the number of available flights and getting stuck if a flight cancels. Also that article completely fails to account for how a 50 seat airplane actually will raise the cost of a seat for certain markets simply because there's fewer available seats.