Drawing the line: The difference between Regional and Mainline ops

[nwa757]

An important article for all potential and current airline pilots.

http://www.flightglobal.com/Articles/2006/05/16/Navigation/177/206574/Drawing+the+line.html

Talks about how the E190 is a mainline aircraft and scope.

 

[Stone Cold]

I promise to try to stay out of this one, but I predict WWIII and 15 pages...

 

[Kingairer]

Great informative article.

 

[nwa757]

I promise to try to stay out of this one, but I predict WWIII and 15 pages...

huh... what is there to debate? The regional term sometimes used by managers to describe the E-190 “is so deceiving” because “you are flying these things from Washington to Houston...what’s regional about that?”

 

[BobDDuck]

Good news on that front... USAir (well, AWA really) is taking back 3 routes from Mesa out of PHX starting in August. These are long routes and it is nice to see them going back to the mainline side of things.

 

[Kingairer]

But theyve lost lots on the east..I think in the end its a wash b/c mesa will always be running those same number of CR9s.

 

[GaTechKid]

But theyve lost lots on the east..

PHL-MSP, CLT-MSP, and CLT-ATL come to mind...

 

[Snow]

An important article for all potential and current airline pilots.

http://www.flightglobal.com/Articles/2006/05/16/Navigation/177/206574/Drawing+the+line.html

Talks about how the E190 is a mainline aircraft and scope.

Hum, interesting. But what defines a regional? According to the DOT, ASA is a major airline based on revinue.