I'm curious how many hours/flight the regionals do compared to the majors... seems like our frequency is much higher than theirs.... so perhaps that would account for the larger number of incidents in the regionals..

Nope. Mainline flies more than twice what the regionals feed. Take UEX, one of the largest regional outfits around, is just shy of 50/50. Most carriers are far less...

That might be true in terms of flight hours. However, what about cycles? I don't know but, it seems like the regionals do more T/O's and ldgs than mainline.......except for maybe Southwest.

I was in SAV today. The rumor is that they touched down past the intersection of 9-27 on 18. Glad everyone's OK.

I've flown out of SAV many times when I was stationed out of MCAS Beaufort. If that is true - that would have been quite the float down the runway! If I remember correctly - SAV Rwy 18/36 is approx 7,000 long and Rwy9/27 almost intersects it at the mid-point.

USMCFLYR

I'm always scared that the dead people under the runway there might jack up my landings!

Glad everyone is okay.

Total % of Overall Block Hour Flying
(U.S., Canada, Mexico City)
Carrier Mainline Fee-for-Departure
AAA 51.0% 49.0%
ACA 54.0% 46.0%
AMR 63.6% 36.4%
CAL 48.5% 51.5%
DAL 43.7% 56.3%
NWA 54.9% 45.1%
UAL 51.8% 48.2%
Data compiled by ALPA Economic & Financial Analysis.

A couple months ago Sky magazine had an article about making Delta/ Delta Connection carriers and service a more "seamless" experience for passengers -- considering that two thirds of all Delta flights are operated by Delta Connection. That's what the article said..

Best briefing an FO ever gave me happened a few months back, he said "my landings feel like they suck but I land in the touchdown zone and on the center line everytime, I'm working on the 'smooth' part." I laughed my as$ off. He's the only one to ever say that. So I'm reasonably certain it wasn't him...did Linda go down there?

pretty much sums up mine :)