Originally Posted by
PilotMechanic
I bet a lot of the EAS, essential air service routes that are subsidized by the government to the small cities will start being picked up by smaller 135 companies. Like the current one I work for using Saabs, Jetstreams, etc.
I'm not sure how that is relevant. Delta got rid of all their EAS routes as soon as they could after the merger. They have been saying the 200's are going away for years now. But yet they keep bringing them out of the desert? Worry about it in 5 years. By then will it matter anyway?