I am sick and tired of being sick and tired...all I am hearing now and days is that "50 seaters are unprofitable"...and yet no one has come up with any stats on how this could be....SO FAR... Delta's "The airline said the cuts would come from parking 15 to 20 mainline aircraft and 20 to 25 regional jets. Delta also will thin frequencies and reduce point-to-point routes. " NWA is "removing 15 to 20 planes from service. Ten of those planes will be older DC-9s, the rest will be a mix of Boeing 757s and Airbus A320s and A319s." United "will remove 10-15 older mainline jets to partially offset fuel costs that could swell $1.2 billion more than planned this year." Jetblue...well.... "will sell four more Airbus A320s, on top of the six it previously announced that it would sell. In total, 10 A320s will leave the fleet by early 2009" US Airways..."will fly three fewer planes during the second half of the year than previously expected and could cut back further"

The only thing RJ related is from Delta of which we all know what happened there...MESA.

So with all this...why are we screaming that the RJ's are unprofitable? It seems that the bulk of things that are getting cut are the mainline jets...to be particularly honest about it...we should be wishing that RJ flying is getting cut not mainline flying because I don't know about you but that is where I wanna be.

But if anyone has any STAT's....not rumors...on how the RJ's are unprofitable...please share