Originally Posted by
The Juice
This does not matter for 2 reasons
1) People do not have a "mainline" option for most places regionals fly. Look at you and Colgan. If someone wants to fly to CLL, LFT, AEX, ACT...etc they have 2 choices, a regional or drive.
2) If the city is served by mainline and a regional (XJet and CAL for example) people will always pick a flight that has the lowest cost and the flight the benefits their schedule best.
Almost every passenger would book on whatever gets them there the cheapest and in the shortest time...period!
1. Agreed.
2. IAH to ATL on 7/28 has 10 non stop flights. All are $69 one way. Six of them are flown by CO, the other four are flown by two competing regionals. I would rather have two more 73s eliminating the RJs: fewer crews, but the remaining jobs are much better.