Originally Posted by
likeitis
Service standards not financial. I ride a couple times a month and the service isn't even comparable to real Midwest. I hate the EMB's. Never enough overhead storage, the seats are the worst I've encountered. The plane is loud. The Flight Attendants are lazy. The flight crews seem reluctant to turn off the seat belt sign. I've flown numerous 1:30-2:00 flights with the SB sign on the entire flight. I can only recall 1 time in my career where I needed to keep the SB sign on the entire flight and that was going from ATL to BOS with a large tropical depression centered over the Chesapeake Bay.
I connect often to Skywest operated Midwest flights and the difference is definitely noticeable.
You're right about the storage bins and some flight attendants but you'll get bad eggs on every airline. You're full of it if you think that the seats are bad. Those seats are by far one of the best in the industry, definetly the best as far as regionals go. I mean take the crj for one. It feels like the seatback was designed for people with crooked backs. Also the noise, it's one of the quietest airliners ever made. I know that some captains leave the sb sign on too much but that happens at every airline and it's not like the pax pay attention anyways.