Return of the props
02-27-2009, 01:05 PM
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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.
02-27-2009, 06:32 PM
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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.
02-27-2009, 06:54 PM
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Continental didn't ask RAH to fly 16 Q400s. They asked RAH if they wanted to BID on flying those airplanes. The same ones that were just awarded to Colgan. I believe Expressjet was offered a chance to bid on that flying as well. Neither company can do it cheaper than Colgan without operating at a loss. Therefore I believe neither even made an attempt.
This was also my understanding.
02-27-2009, 07:24 PM
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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.
02-27-2009, 07:42 PM
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I thought that in this economy and with oil the way it was, that props would return to regionals. Continental asked us at RAH to fly 16 Q 4's. But after the Colgan crash, passengers are avoiding them. I know several people rebooking their trips to get off the regional planes! Interesting.
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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.
02-28-2009, 04:40 AM
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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.
02-28-2009, 04:43 AM
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Continental didn't ask RAH to fly 16 Q400s. They asked RAH if they wanted to BID on flying those airplanes. The same ones that were just awarded to Colgan. I believe Expressjet was offered a chance to bid on that flying as well. Neither company can do it cheaper than Colgan without operating at a loss. Therefore I believe neither even made an attempt.
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.
02-28-2009, 04:51 AM
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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"
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