Originally Posted by
rickair7777
But if you're going to carry 50 pax, the saab needs to make TWO trips...there goes your efficiency advantage.
If there are enough pax to fill a larger airplane, the larger airplane is almost always more efficient. But since pax love frequency, we often operate multiple flights with smaller aircraft rather than one large airplane daily.
We are seeing the same thing with mainline...one 737 replacing 2-3 RJ's.
Agreed. From by background at Colgan though, doing the EAS runs, we were either empty or only had about 5 people on a 34 seat aircraft. The only runs we had on the Airways side that were full were the Pittsburgh ones that got taken away late last year. For Colgan, the Saabs were irreplaceable. At Eagle, it looks as if it could be a different story.