Originally Posted by
GA2Jets
Why the 50 seats though? I get they're not that great but they make a lot of money for the company by going into tiny markets. Short term I guess I understand but long term...are you telling me that 737s will be going into Hays, KS? Or that they're just going to give up towns like that? I don't buy it...
The way that the RJs 'make' a lot of money is due to the revenue split of multileg tickets. Mainline will credit most of the revenue to the RJ leg. Absent that, they're probably not making much/any money.
If SK says they're gone, he knows that they're not moneymakers because if there's one thing he does extremely well is crunch numbers.
Originally Posted by
JayD
What you’re not factoring in is that HYS serves the whole northwestern part of KS so many on the flight already drove 1.5-2 hrs from an even smaller town to get to HYS to fly. Their only other UA option is to drive 3-4 hours to DEN, or they can drive the 1-2 hours to GCK and fly on AA. Before HYS they would go to GCK and the business went to AA.
Then AA gets the small amount of business. Assuming AA continues to service GCK. I don't think they will.