Originally Posted by
acl65pilot
It is more than just customer satisfaction, it is the ability to pile more crud in to the same bag. Less frequency on bigger jets leads to more seats for the same piece of airspace. With the public seeing air travel as essential it is the only way to go. There are only so many landing slots, and so much airspace to fit us all in.
Delta is leading the way in the NextGen Airspace Initiative. We have ppl in DC almost every week trying to find a solution to this problem. We know what the benefit are, but part of the fix is no more 50 seat jets taking up the same airspace as a 400 passenger jets does.
It may be less convenient for passengers to only have twice or thrice service a day sans hourly, but the jet will be bigger and the delays in theory should be less, as there is less metal trying to land on the same 7000 feet near LGA Bay.
I think your theory is a little flawed if you think there will be fewer jets landing in LGA or whatever airport that's slot controlled. If airlines go to bigger jets and less frequency to some markets, the slots that are now freed up will just be used to start new service some where else and now the airlines are right back where they started only with bigger jets, which is good, but it will not lead to less conjestion. IMO
Denny