usmc-sgt

The Q doesnt necessarily hold any more people than the -170 and the RJ 700 and holds less than a 900. It will be the Q400X when it comes online that will be holding 90 pax, not sure when that plane will go into production though. I am not so sure that the Q400 is really a mainline competitor, a regional contender yes, but it doesnt replace a 190 or a 737 or a dc9 or other smaller narrow body aircraft.

JoeyMeatballs

don't kid yourself, of course it is............................ Heck you could run 20 RJ's a day from EWR-MCO, I am sure not every seat would be filled on every flight..........Frequency has a way of masking the fact that mainline routes are being flown by regional aircraft...........

mccube5

actually from what i have read in the last day commutair did not even bid to continue service in that area. big sky was the only carrier that even bid on flying into there. there was an article in a local paper up there documenting how disappointed the community was with the service we provided, and righfully so, but how they had no other choice since we were the sole bidders.

this route wasn't "taken over" by big sky. comair tried it and lost money hand over fist. the service was then discontinued. months later big sky went to delta with the idea that maybe it could make money with a 1900, and we gave it a shot. loads in and out of there were almost always full, but once again our operational inefficiency led to many disgruntled passengers and thus making the service a failure. so i wouldn't plan on comair going back in there since it was a losing proposal from the get go.

cfii2007

Pan Scam...........

mccube5

the economics of air travel show that when people are given more choices that more people will travel. in essence, if you threw a 737 with 120 seats on a route once a day you may only sell 50 seats. if you put 3 flights a day on a 50 seat rj you may get over 100 passengers to travel that same route since you give them more flexibility as to what time of day they can travel.

now im not saying i dont agree with you saab, im just saying thats what i learned in an airline economics class a couple years ago.

JoeyMeatballs

I agree, especially since pax are now accustomed to 12 flights a day to just about anywhere

CRJDriver

Trust me I know. I always wondered myself why we are flying a 50-seat jet from BOS-TTN three times a day?! I think the most PAX I've had on that flight was probably 15. I remember one night we only had like 8 people.

Paok

sweet i live like a mile from trenton airport..... but i wouldnt get on the beech.... i was sad when comair pulled out TTN overnights would be so nice

mccube5

can i ask why? something wrong with the beech? last time i checked it had two engines and some wings. on top the that those PT6A-67D's are some of the best engines out there.

CRJDriver

Yeah, the TTN overnights were ok. The hotel was very nice. I think it was a Hyatt out by Princeton University. It was fun flying in there. Maybe with BigSky moving out of BOS, maybe we finally get our BOS base... pff