This is great news!!!


With the exception of that one clueless person early on in the thread, it is great to see that everyone realizes this is a good thing. I like Skywest, but they have plenty of planes and plenty of growth. This will not hurt anyone at Skywest. It will be great to see United (or any other mainline) getting their planes and routes back.


I have flown to EUG on Skywest a lot. My brother lives in Eugene, my parents live in SFO, and I go to school in DEN, so I have flown SFO-EUG, DEN-EUG, and even PDX-EUG alot.

In 2002, United used to run 3 flights from SFO-EUG (a mix of A320 and 737's). When they downgraded to 6 CRJ-200's, the route was always full. I had such a hard time getting up there on a weekend. Even with the 70 seaters the flights were full. So I am glad to see United has made this high density route mainline again. The DEN-EUG has 2 CRJ-700's, and they carry a good load, but they are almost never full. So maybe DEN-EUG is an RJ route (either 2 CRJ-700's or 3 CRJ-200's).
RJ's have a place. They are designed to serve smaller communities and less popular routes that cannot support a mainline jet (DEN-MRY, SFO-GEG, etc...) Without RJ's, many of these routes would not exist. But I really hope that mainline airlines start replacing RJ's on higher density routes (SFO-EUG, SFO-ONT, SMF-LAX, LAX-PHX, and BOS/JFK/LGA/EWR/IAD shuttle routes)