Originally Posted by
gettinbumped
You'll notice that capacity increase # was not broken out from mainline vs regional. We continue to see a shift from mainline to regional capacity under Kirby. Particularly a shift back into the 50 seat market that everyone else is exiting. That was my point, and was not unexpected based on his activity at AMR. This is why you see our current hiring not even covering retirements
From Chicago Business Journal last month:
"United Airlines is definitely going mainline. The Chicago-based carrier's July operations report vividly demonstrates once again how United traffic is increasingly migrating to its mainline operations, where the carrier has shown great consistency in recent months in its improving on-time arrival metrics.
The July operations report released late Tuesday shows a whopping 10.9 percent increase in domestic mainline traffic in July compared to a year ago.
By the same token, regional flight traffic decreased 9.1 percent year over year.
Overall, domestic traffic for the month increased a healthy 7.1 percent year over year."
So far for the year, they've grown mainline and shrunk regional flying.. A better direction than years past, I believe.