Originally Posted by
JoeMerchant
I'll tell you why we don't have ATRs anymore and why we aren't seeing TPs at Delta....Delta has decided that they don't want TPs anymore due to "passenger perception". I for one would love to fly the new ATR or the Q....I loved the ATR for the 14 years I was on it. Now I fly the RJ to the same cities with 16 fewer people and burn twice as much fuel. Doesn't really make sense, but that is a Delta decision....not an ASA or Skywest decision. Jerry would do it in a heart beat if he could get a long term commitment to the new airplanes.
Continental celebrated in advertising all of the place when we parked all our props in 2002. Now they've got Dash 8-400s from Colgan and -200s from Commutair flying for them.
I think any airline, and especially DAL is the LGA swap goes through, would be wise to investing in TPs, especially up north.
Is ATR and Bombardier are looking at 100 seat TPs? I heard Embraer might reconsider entering the market.
Originally Posted by
JoeMerchant
Northwest and Continental were members of SkyTeam. Alaska is now a codeshare partner...What's the difference? Is because they are a "regional"?
I'd say the major difference is Continental and Alaska sell their own tickets, regional carriers do not.
More to the issue, what if ASA said it was dropping DAL and creating a DFW operation. It then told Skyteam it would acquire larger planes to augment the regional fleet and including widebodies or it would allow international Skyteam members do it for them and Skyteam would get a large share of the revenue (some way, some how) far greater than what they'd get from DAL, could Skyteam do it? Could DAL prevent it?
I guess I could read the agreement between Skyteam and Delta...