Originally Posted by
O2pilot
Flying to Redding, Baton Rouge, Devil’s Lake, Eureka, Harlingen, etc and the 100+ small cities that United Express flies to it doesn’t make sense to fly a 150 seat Airbus into it totally smart to codeshare to those cities. Those passengers feed our mainline and allow us to be paid to fly 777s to Paris, Auckland, Sydney, London, etc. I’d trade 76 and smaller seat jets to be able to fly 777/787/767 etc all over the world. Its a fair trade off. Global airlines need the network effect of that feed. Big regionals or LCCs don’t.
What percentage of mainline flying do you think is conducted by widebodies? Have we not learned anything in the past two decades? Who cares about 20,000 $125+/hr - $200+/hr gigs when you can ensure 1500 $300+/hr gigs for guys that have been on property for 20+ years amirite?!? That’s a lot of money we’re leaving on the table to make sure a small percentage of guys make an extra $50k - $100k per year.