Originally Posted by
LAXtoDEN
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesas...cost-airlines/
I’d recommend giving this a read. I posted it prior, but it got stepped over by Finessed creating havoc.
Flying an empty airplane at 25% capacity taking a $20,000 loss per flight isn’t giving you more job security than a regional jet flying the same route at profitability. A full flight in a mainline jet profits $10,000 yet an empty flight could costs you more than 2 flights at full capacity, think about that.
Also consider the normal route structure for a regional. Which is feeding small airports to a major hub (in most cases would never be a profitable route for a mainline jet), bringing passengers in to fill mainline jets (job security). The flight loads at American or any other major would be decreased significantly. Grandma and Grandpa won’t bother with a 4 hour drive to the major hub that will fly them to their eventual destination.
I came to OO a couple of years ago from a 141 school with student loan debt. I have zero intentions of being a regional lifer and I’m not a cheerleader for increased regional flying. Just trying to make the point, be careful for what you wish for.
Sorry to hear you’re on the wrong side of the list, wish you the best for a quick recall.
Thanks, do you have any articles explaining how airplanes fly for me to read next my man?
The point you were trying to make isn’t the whole picture. RJs have higher cost per available seat mile than mainline airplanes. They are more expensive to operate. So why would a business use them? You pointed toward the answer, which is to bring passengers from smaller cities to our hubs, where they will get on a mainline aircraft. In other words, deal with the lower cost per available seat mile of regional jets because they make us money by filling our bigger, truly profitable airplanes. Great!
Now tell me, given this, how can you use that as justification for flying four e170s between NYC and Miami daily, when a 321 twice daily would be much more efficient to operate in every metric imaginable? I use this example of NYC and Miami because it’s exactly what AA is doing, and it’s far from the only example.
Anyway I’m about to go eat a bowl of cereal, do you have an article you can show me explaining how it’s done
