Originally Posted by
johnso29
O.K., thanks for the insight. Now as far as XJET losing money, its due to start up costs associated with shifting airplanes out of the COEX fleet and into the Delta and Branded fleet. Our revenue has increased, but we had a lot of airplanes that had serious down time. Now, as I said in a previous post, for me this is not a EMB-145 is better or worse than a CRJ700/900 thing, its simply that I don't think there is a demand in the Mexico market that would require the CRJ7/9. Would you agree?
Based upon what you said and I've seen, I would agree. But more seats for close to the same cost allows for you to make more money during the peak seasons.
Personally I see XJT's use of the ERJ as common sense. If XJT wanted to use the E170's it would cost them for more money in start up cost than it currently is. Buying new a/c, training new pilots, new sim instructors, new ground instructors, new curriculum, Mx professional, parts, certification, ops spec and so on. The cost would have been much higher to bring a different a/c on line. Now they can test the markets and if there is growth they can make the decisions about larger a/c down the road.
Regardless I wish you guys the best of luck.