Originally Posted by
Milk Man
I hope this scope pushes through. I fly a 70 turboprop and yes I would love to see mainline have that flying. And a regional be a true regional flying short hops to hubs. Not this 50 seat RJ stuff from Houston to Toronto. And even though some of these oustourced airlines fly nothing but 50 seat jets, whats the difference from them flying 2 50 seat for every 1 70 seat. Just because its a 50 seat jet they think they arent touching mainline flying.
I hope the scope is approved. They deserve it.
XJT flys a ton of these long hall legs, IAH Toronto is blocked at almost 4 hrs, it is ridiculous, I cannot imagine buying a ticket and showing up to sit in a 145 for 4 hrs. My in-laws avoided CAL when they went on vacation last year because almost all of their Mexico operation is done by XJT 145's. Actually XJT is the largest airline operating in Mexico according to the web site?