Regional Route Lengths

fosters

fosters

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I was looking at a friends schedule the other day and he was flying from Houston to Toronto non-stop. Does the mainline carrier actually make any money when they let their regional partners fly these long routes in a 50 seat jet?
 
WAFlyBoy said:
Not this again.....
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Now there's a helpful answer..:sarcasm:

fosters said:
I was looking at a friends schedule the other day and he was flying from Houston to Toronto non-stop. Does the mainline carrier actually make any money when they let their regional partners fly these long routes in a 50 seat jet?
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Do they make money? Can't answer for sure, but one thing I would imagine is this: it makes more sense to them to fly a regional plane with 'x' amount of passengers than to fly a DC9, MD, or Axxx on that same flight with the same 'x' amount of pax.
 
JEP said:
Now there's a helpful answer..:sarcasm:
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Forgive my cynical response.

It's a question that nobody here is likely qualified to answer. In addition, it's a topic of discussion that, in the past, had exploded into a 5-page hate-fest in a matter of hours.
 
Who knows? I commonly fly schedules like:

ORD-BOI
BOI-SFO
or
ORD-ASE
ASE-LAX
or
ORD-SAT
SAT-LAX
or
LAX-ICT
ICT-ORD
or
ORD-YYC
YYC-SFO

These are all long legs for us. But I think they're all supplemented routes. With the exception of ICT.
 
I don't have the data in front of me, but the RAA released some information for 2005 that said the AVERAGE member airline stage length was 475 miles. That doesn't sound too bad when you think about it, but then you've got to remember all the little short hops that same places are doing and think about the long routes that are brining up that average. In 2005 the airline I am at had an average stage length of 190 miles. So, obviously some places are doing long legs to offset that.
 
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