Originally Posted by
Sunvox
First of all they don't post that statistic. Second of all it would still be a minor fraction especially when considered on a company by company basis. Your post has no factual basis, but yet you post and people who sympathize with your sentiment shake their head in agreement and the myth continues. Regionals represent a small piece of the pie and to think otherwise is simply not factual.
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I got to go with Sunvox on this you have smaller passenger loads flying in smaller aircraft on shorter legs, and that woukd definitely increase the percentage of the total departures and arrivals attributable to a regional. And I'm sure they do keep statistics on that, because fitting an a RJ departure or arrival into a busy airport (SEA comes to mind) takes about as much ATC, runway, and taxiway tome as a 737.
I'm not saying the world would come to an end if mainline picked up all the regional passenger miles, and that woukd likely be a good thing for ALL of us if it happened, but based on a per passenger mile basis, RJs represent a disproportionately LARGE PORTION OF THE ATC and facilities burden.