Originally Posted by
Superpilot92
Wrong lots of those routes used to be 737 routes. Also the rumors are that they will be brought down to IAH also and replace both XJT and CAL routes. IAH-SAT is one of the rumored routes and guess what, XJT doesnt do that route its all CAL 737 and 757. Bottom line is all this flying should be done by CAL pilots if the plane is painted in CAL paint.
I can show you 75% of all regional routes that used to be mainline routes. THen they all got replaced by rj's. Nothing new there. q400 isn't going to pick up the 5 or 6 daily IAH-SAT turns done by CAL. I'd expect to see the q400 doing more of the same as colgan now, iah-beaumont, college station, del rio, tyler, etc. I wouldn't expect to see the q in mexico. It wouldn't make money on segments that long. And it's only an option for a total of 20 more airplanes. CAL isn't the only game in town looking at this t-prop. I'd be shocked if more than 10 more went to CAL.