United to reduce regional flying
 

U.S. regional flying remains well below pre-pandemic levels, in large part driven by the long-term strategies of the Big Three, especially Delta and United, to do a higher percentage of flying with more lucrative mainline aircraft.

This October, the three airlines were scheduled to offer 25% fewer regional aircraft flights than in October 2019, with 19.3% fewer regional seats.

"Expect the [regional jet] fleet to still be around and do its thing, but it will become a smaller and smaller percentage of the business," United CEO Scott Kirby said during the airline's Q3 earnings call, even as he announced the new SkyWest agreement.

In its annual report released in September, the Regional Airline Association also offered a cautious assessment of the recent regional service buildup, noting that the smallest U.S. commercial airports -- those that receive no more than 0.05% of U.S. passengers -- have lost service this year, even though somewhat larger regional airports have grown.

In total, 65% of U.S. airports have less service this month than they did in October 2019, Regional Airline Association CEO Faye Malarkey Black wrote.


SOURCE:

https://www.travelweekly.com/Travel-...nds-2146961874

I believe over half of AA daily departures are regionals…

Delta has the smallest amount because they utilize the A220/717.

I don’t have solid evidence of this but in my opinion there is less service to small airports because the CRJ200 has been mostly retired and the E145 is on its way out. And often they do not replace them with an E175 or CRJ900 because they are too big.

Seems they are reducing frequency?

Yes, United has lost service to lots of small airports as a result of the CRJ-200’s being retired. Some airports have transitioned to CRJ-550 and/or ERJ-175, but more often than not the city is removed from the United system. The CRJ-550 is unnecessarily kneecapped by a MTOW limit. The ERJ-175 is scoped out, so they tend to be deployed on markets that need 76 seats rather than markets that supported multiple 50 seat flights a day and could still be supported by 1-2 76 seat flights a day. Instead those markets are no longer served.

Any city that United does not fly to, but our competitions do, means many passengers who will not be flying on United mainline metal when they connect in a hub to go to their final destination.

That means less mainline airplanes, less pilot jobs, less seniority progression, less captain seats, less revenue, less profit sharing… you get the picture.

What competitors exactly?

Delta, American, Southwest, Alaska, JetBlue, Frontier, Spirit, Allegiant, Sun Country, Breeze, Avelo, JSX… anyone.

Many of the airports United has pulled out of are still served by these competitors.

There fixed it for ya.
Please don't try to volunteer for the Negotiating Committee- lol

We need to consistently work towards United tail ? United Pilots.

Lol,
you really think that because United cut service to Houghton, MI that the airline will shrink?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_airlines_with_more_than_100_
destinations

Sorry, but P2P carriers only fly between city pairs that can profitably fill whatever the smallest plane they fly. LUV and JBLU serve less than a third of the cities UAL does. Guess what US airline serves the most cities?

This the CAL guy that prob thought "unlimited RJ's prob only means 50 of those lawn darts so I'm a YES..."