Originally Posted by
acl65pilot
RJ's can give market presense which was the choice de jour about a decade ago, but with fuel where it is the margin is horrible.
RJ's kill a market. Customers have a bad experience and blame it on Delta, the company from whom they bought the ticket. We lose customers to competitors like SWA. And then when we try to put mainline back in, we've already run off a whole bunch of customers. This is the part the bean counters don't seem to know how to quantify. And they're too stuck in the world of their cubicle to figure it out.