Originally Posted by
erjpilot7
You cannot operate a 70-90 seat airplane on many of the routes currently served by a 50-seat product. And if you retire the 50 seat jet and pull out of the market that won't support anything bigger, you are leaving money on the table. And there are A LOT of those markets out there. Settle in to your 50-seater, it'll be around for a while.
But the problem is many of the mid size city routes that used to be 73s and F100s have been replaced with the damn 50 seaters. Yes, frequency has increased on those routes but the overall number of seats available has gone down in the market I live in. I do not enjoy riding 2 hrs on a full RJ that has no seat padding on a market that used to be a 73 route.