Originally Posted by
MKUltra
Currently with the new pay rates and training costs the 175 CASM is anemic. The legacy operators are bleeding money to keep the 175 mainline flying alive.
The 175 was a hit when you could fly ewr to Houston or Austin when flight loads were light, the monkeys up front made peanuts and revenue per seat mile was ok..... now with higher labor charges and gas the 175 is becoming a dinosaur and will be relegated to the 50 seat flying routes.. think clt to pgv or dfw to abi.
Kirby at united loves the 175 the feels it weakens his mainline labor group. This he publicly said when at american.
Cite your source please.
I have a really hard time believing that labor prices; which historically are one of the cheapest expenses of an airline operation, are making 76 seat flying near unprofitable.
Basing the cost of flying on a legacy which is the same exact jet as 145, the break even on a 50 seat jet is around half the airplane based on the lowest fare available for flights between 1.5 hours. The 145 is not nearly as efficient compared to the 175. I ran these numbers myself out of curiousity.
I feel like management has been stuffing the “labor prices will bankrupt this airline” thing down pilots and flight attendants throats so long that it’s starting to take hold.