Originally Posted by
Hou757
I will trust what your pilots are telling us while in the jumpseat. "Republic is taking on some of the flying that Mesa was doing" I will trust them more than you!
You failed to say when this jumpseater rode with you.... As MAGPBS said, routes move from regional to regional. A couple of months ago we were flying IAH-DSM, then we weren’t and now we are.
The only time when a real increase in flying can happen is when Republic has more jets under United colors. Otherwise, all Republic is doing is using excess capacity of their existing fleet.
You just don’t know what you are talking about. And, if Mesa jumpseaters are telling you this recently, they don’t know what they are talking about.