Originally Posted by
brockenspectre
Delta, along with others, are going to have to face the music soon in the near future about the 50 seat gap. Either they will have to stretch out the life longer than they want, or bite the bullet and start putting turboprops back into the mix. Nobody can afford to let that capacity gap vanish.
the solution is called “at risk/prorate”. They get the pax but don’t need to deal with the costs and hassle of the small city fluctuations... The CRJ 200 will live another 10 years doing that..