Originally Posted by
Mercyful Fate
Reduction in frequency and upgaging is oversimplifying things a bit. Not exactly a 1/1 exchange to balance things out. In a competitive market, buy doing such you run a large risk of losing traffic to other carriers simply because you cannot offer the same schedule and frequency. Combine that with connection traffic into major hubs, you could get yourself behind the 8 ball quick.
Yes. Customers prefer frequency, they want to travel on their schedule, ie not arrive at 0830 for a 1530 meeting, nor have a six hour airport appreciation waiting for their connection. Leave a gap like that and the competition will fill it quick-like.
Originally Posted by
Mercyful Fate
I do agree there are "regional" jets on routes that have zero business being on. I feel the major reason the 50 seat RJ's gets such a bad rap is because the majors were using them on routes they should have never been flying on in the first place. I think its great the majors are finally realizing that the regional model needs to be fine tuned. I am still not sold on what they think the marketplace is for the E175 however....
The only routes that RJ's "have no business being on" are those which don't make business sense. If the pax are willing to buy tickets and be jammed into an RJ seat for 3.5 hours that's their problem. Until the "bill of rights" gets expanded to cover seat spacing vs. flight duration.