Originally Posted by
ninerdriver
Less RJ departures, maybe, but I bet RJs flew many more miles. Before Covid, more of my LGA and JFK flights were of the 800-1200 mile variety than the 200-400 mile variety. JFK-DFW, JFK-ORD, LGA-STL, NYC-JAX... these were common 900 routes.
I agree, the role of the “regional airline“ has changed tremendously trough-out the years, when I was flying the 175 it was all major cities pairings, we were not flying “connecting” flights to the hubs, we were flying the same routes as the 737’s or the 320’s.
The question is if the majors will decide to fly only 737’s or 320’s on those routes and remove the “regionals” from their schedules.
They will do what is financially advantageous to them, whatever that might be.
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