Originally Posted by
Moonbeam
Yet somehow I see they are still flying 7 flights a day from Greenville, SC to CLT and 11 flights a day between COS and Denver. Seems like they could spare at least one flight between these airports and use them on some smaller ones where the drive is too long. I am guessing almost every pilot drives to work from these airports that are only a 2 hour drive.
I mean if we are really looking for short term solutions this would work.
the politicians and the RAA are blowing a lot of smoke. If those small airports that have seen service decrease, or lost service completely, made the big airlines money, they wouldn’t have lost service! it’s an economic issue.
United has flipped from majority of its flights being on Express (in 2019) to a 64% share being mainline today. Some markets just can’t be flown profitably, 50 seats or not, so airlines are making business decisions to no longer fly them. It doesn’t make sense to chase what few passengers a small market has if there is competition. Such is life.