$140 a barrel for UAL & CAL!:eek:

Give the American consumer, oh say, 2 more months and they'll be buying a particular airline ticket because its $2.00 cheaper, not because its one airplane or another.

The general public has a little shorter attention span IMO and I see them going back to business as usual in just a few weeks.

It's funny. I happened to be browsing through ticket prices from CAL for MCO-MIA and I noticed they now added that this flight is a "non-jet" aircraft. I decided to check the EWR-BUF route. Don't know if it was like that before the accident or not but I found it interesting. The prices were $98 for a EWR-BUF round trip on the Q and around $390 for the same trip and similar time range for the ERJ.

This was also my understanding.

Thats insane! What are their plans with colgan? geez! give them a break. It would bring the memory back for some pax. Not a good idea.

You claim "passengers are avoiding them." I see no evidence of that whatsoever. Can you quantify your statement?

Passengers have demonstrated that they will fly on anything if they can get a ticket $5 cheaper. They don't stop flying every transport airplane after it is involved in an accident.

Passengers in newark have been refusing to get on q400's... at least they were the week or two after. If you are ever there ask the customer service desk workers. They are told to change the ticket if an open seat is on a later flight and to offer a refund if they dont want to travel. I think most airlines do this for the weeks after a crash.

colgan also had the slots for delivery of the q400's ANY other company would have had to wait 2-3+ yrs to get a delivery date. With CAL making little or no headway with the relaxation of scope they needed something in the meantime.

If a company like republic wanted to fly props for CAL i am pretty sure they would have just bought colgan. So much for Republics all 70+ seat jet fleet.

You don't know anybody rebooking their trip to get off regional planes.

I bet you most passengers don't even know that a Continental 737 and a Continental RJ belong to different companies... on the other hand when they see a Prop waiting for them, they make a face, maybe a smart a$$ coment, but that's that, they get on... People don't care about RJs, the don't like props, I know I flew for Allegheny Airlines. I remember Buffalo, 3 RJs and a Dash parked outside. Passengers would come and ask,

-"excuse me, which is the La Guardia flight",
-"that plane sir, that one facing this way" pointing to the Dash
-"damn, thank you"