Originally Posted by
ZeroTT
https://www.google.com/amp/s/thepoin...view-iata/amp/
I’ll stand by #3, especially wrt single-class 50 seat. As vague as corporate “we have no plans to XXX” normally is … kirby lays out all the dots here and says we don’t want to connect them but we might have no choice
even if you charitably assume some continued role for the 200/145… which carrier wins that musical chairs game.
The article mentions that they don’t want to cut off towns like Erie PA or Cody WY. Erie won’t be cut off, they will just have to drive 1.5 hours to Cleveland or Buffalo, and Cody is just 2 hours from Billings. With a shortage of pilots and increasing demand, airlines are going to have to make some hard decisions since the fleet currently serving those markets is aging out, there isn’t a replacement, and staffing the current levels is just going to get more difficult as record hiring at the legacies, LCC’s, and freight companies continues.