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Old 07-19-2011, 07:56 PM
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From New York Times:

Rural America, already struggling to recover from the recession and the flight of its young people, is about to take another blow: the loss of its airline service.

That was underscored last week when Delta Air Lines announced that it “can no longer afford” to continue service at 24 small airports. The carrier says it is losing a total of $14 million a year on flights from places like Thief River Falls, a city of 8,600 in northwest Minnesota that fills only 12 percent of the seats, or Pierre, the capital of South Dakota, where Delta’s two daily flights are on average less than half full.

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Old 07-19-2011, 08:08 PM
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Yawn. Been happening since de-regulation.

Want air service? Pay the price. For everyone else, there's Greyhound.

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Old 07-19-2011, 08:16 PM
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The new regional air service:

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Originally Posted by HSLD View Post
The new regional air service:

That might only get you local air service.
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Originally Posted by ASpilot2be View Post
That might only get you local air service.
Time to put regional back into context
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Old 07-19-2011, 09:37 PM
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That's what these things are for, right?

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Originally Posted by vagabond View Post
From New York Times:

Rural America, already struggling to recover from the recession and the flight of its young people, is about to take another blow: the loss of its airline service.

That was underscored last week when Delta Air Lines announced that it “can no longer afford” to continue service at 24 small airports. The carrier says it is losing a total of $14 million a year on flights from places like Thief River Falls, a city of 8,600 in northwest Minnesota that fills only 12 percent of the seats, or Pierre, the capital of South Dakota, where Delta’s two daily flights are on average less than half full.

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Re-regulate and pay the airlines for these services....12% load factors ain't gonna get it done.
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At 12% it shouldn't be done. That's what 135 operators are for.
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Originally Posted by forgot to bid View Post
That's what these things are for, right?

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At 12% it shouldn't be done. That's what 135 operators are for.
That's what I'm talkin' 'bout! If this scares the pax, then they don't really need air service, now do they?
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