Originally Posted by
Two Kings
And you guys wanted all that RJ flying back. This is what you get.
We want even more of it back.
The real issue is that all the trips in all narrowbodies are starting to become like that, along with other QOL degrading features like early reports and late releases etc. There's no problem with an "RJ replacement which is really just a DC-9-10 replacement" doing "regional trips" per say. Most of the pain is how the trips are built and when the optimizer's only concern is one minute of credit at the price of maxed out everything and 2 plane changes a day all the time every time, that's what sucks.
Legs per day is a quick and lazy metric to use but I understand why becaue it does correlate. However Shuttle flying wasn't nearly as bad and was done by mainline for decades and was quite popular for many and that was 4-5 legs a day. So that's really not the fulcrum many act like. Also many schedules like that aren't really "regional" schedules anyway. Short ATL-FL hops were done in widebodies for quite a while and ATL-SAV/CHS and other markets were never a regional exclusive and regularly done by mainline.
The real issue is the duty days, plane changes and maxed out report/release times. When skeds actually brags about 1/4 of the trips in a certain category finally being commutable on one end, that's proof that the pain is by design and not a natural function of all "recaptured regional" flying.