Originally Posted by
Vsop
I just stumbled across this article talking about an August schedule reduction by Delta. The math in the article of 4,300 flights and 302,000 seats works out to 70.2 seats per flight. The routes shown are also predominantly RJ routes. Could this be Delta pulling 35 RJs out of the network? I thought I read that they weren’t operating those aircraft this summer.
Does anyone see something else I’m missing?
https://www.simpleflying.com/august-us-flight-schedule-turbulence/amp/
The 35 are already out of the network. As we speak Republic is moving DCI 170s over to Eagle flying. There are no 35 jets ready to go just awaiting activation. There might be a handful that can be brought back, but DCI is actively shrinking with no new orders currently.
867RW, formerly DCI paint, left Amarillo in shiny new American paint last week. In service with Eagle now.
https://flightaware.com/live/flight/...330Z/KAMA/KPIT