Originally Posted by Jamers (Post 1165289)

Not United's style. Expressjet to fill with the ERJ.

Originally Posted by txflyer007 (Post 1165206)

42.6% of all statistics are made up......My information is from taking this route multiple times, noticed I said taken not flown because Colgan has put me on the "gound shuttle beaumont" van more times than I can count. But don't take my word for it go talk to the rammers, gate agents, or the guy that owns the van company who is making pimp sized grips of paper on canceled flights..... I'm not trying to start an argument here but the bottom line is that IMO Colgan's performance has been terriable for Beaumont and many other city's it serves and I'm simply trying to say that whoever moves into these routes and others has an up hill climb to regain the traveling publics confidence.

Aside from performance I always found the ticket prices for most of the SF340 routes from IAH to be outrageous and completely out of touch with the fact that 80% of these customers live within 2hrs of IAH. I'm not sure if this is a Colgan or United decision but if an operator were to come into these markets like Beaumont, College Station, Waco, Lake Charles ect.. and keep it around 100 bucks per segment, similar to what Silver has done in Montana, than I think you could be successful.

Originally Posted by Milk Man (Post 1165276)

Who cares about completion factor! I mean a flight can be 4hrs delayed and still get completed. So what is the ON TIME performance? That is what matters and just as juice said the condition and reliability and performance is extremely below what to me is considered a good carrier. I flew the saabs down there and was embarrassed, and dissapointed to the people who were constantly affected by our poor performance. Operating peak hrs in summer with on a/c pack operable is just sickening. Im glad
express takin over.

I even drove and still do from houston to tyler just because i know there will more then likely be a delay or cancellation