Originally Posted by
NoValueAviator
Republic is rapidly taking over NY, as any NY Republic pilot is quick to tell you, here or at LaGuardia lol
Why that surprises anyone baffles me, Envoy’s 40-50 seat operation has always been the last choice, picking up the leftovers.
Certainly until recently we were carving off some Republic flying in MIA (ostensibly that Republic didn’t want). I dunno if that’s still happening.
MIA might be the only base we stand to lose some ground in if ENY ever decides to bring the 170 out there. However, a lot of the trip composition out of MIA is comprised of some of the EOW flying, then heading northeast/middle southeast to bounce around doing the Republic bread and butter flying before eventually getting back to MIA. Almost half the trips in MIA are 4-day trips for that reason. By comparison, we don’t have a lot of trips that are longer than 3-day’s in LGA — in fact, LGA pairings are spread almost evenly among 1, 2, and 3 day trips.