MtnWest1979 From United States of America, joined Nov 2005, 2122 posts, RR: 1 Posted (7 years 3 months 3 weeks 1 day 17 hours ago) and read 2754 times:
I was looking through www.united.com, and saw that United Express/SkyWest will commence two nonstop flights between Boise and Los Angeles. They will apparently fly the 50 pax CRJ.
With these two new flights, United will offer 4 mainline flights (1 ORD, 3 DEN, and 10 UA Express flights.
Last week I heard someone ( a UA employee) mention LA flights, so I started looking it up.
Here is the preliminary schedule according to their site.
BOI-LAX
UA6538 lv 10:56AM ar 11:55am
UA6539 lv 7:29pm ar 8:28pm
LAX-BOI
UA6536 lv 8:05am ar 11:04am
UA6537 lv 3:59pm ar 6:58pm
These,along with Horizon Air's two flights, will for the first time, BOI will have two carriers offering nonstop LAX flights.
Here is QX's schedule as of May 5th.
BOI-LAX
lv 6:10am ar 7:40am
lv 6:50pm ar 8:20pm
LAX-BOI
lv 8:10am ar 11:30am
lv 8:40pm ar 11:59pm
So this will give the choice of deHavilland DASH 8-400s or CRJs on nonstop flights.
MtnWest1979 From United States of America, joined Nov 2005, 2122 posts, RR: 1 Reply 2, posted (7 years 3 months 3 weeks 1 day 16 hours ago) and read 2676 times:
Looks as if AS' 1 nonstop will be it.
I guess everyone is happy funneling pax thru SEA or PDX.
I was amazed to see sometime ago that UA ended their nonstops to SFO.
Is there not that much traffic at GEG? I would think there would be, but by flights, maybe not.
N1120A From United States of America, joined Dec 2003, 25852 posts, RR: 79 Reply 3, posted (7 years 3 months 3 weeks 1 day 16 hours ago) and read 2646 times:
Quoting MtnWest1979 (Thread starter): So this will give the choice of deHavilland DASH 8-400s or CRJs on nonstop flights.
The Q400 is actually the nicer airplane, though United is the larger carrier. Looks like UA is finally trying to get a piece of what QX has been exploiting for a while, underserved small markets to LAX.
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Iowaman From United States of America, joined May 2004, 4099 posts, RR: 7 Reply 4, posted (7 years 3 months 3 weeks 1 day 16 hours ago) and read 2626 times:
B757capt From United States of America, joined Feb 2004, 1236 posts, RR: 0 Reply 5, posted (7 years 3 months 3 weeks 1 day 16 hours ago) and read 2611 times:
I'm surprised that UA didn't do this already. hmmmm interesting.
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N1120A From United States of America, joined Dec 2003, 25852 posts, RR: 79 Reply 6, posted (7 years 3 months 3 weeks 1 day 15 hours ago) and read 2593 times:
Quoting Iowaman (Reply 4): The CRJ is a noticeably shorter flight too.
20 minutes is not all that much shorter, particularly when you consider that you have 7 more inches of pitch on the Q400
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Planecrazy2 From United States of America, joined Apr 2004, 615 posts, RR: 4 Reply 7, posted (7 years 3 months 3 weeks 1 day 15 hours ago) and read 2584 times:
Where did you get the 7in more figure from? Seatguru says the Q400 has 31-32.0" pitch and the CRJ has 31.0" pitch.
NWDC10 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 8, posted (7 years 3 months 3 weeks 1 day 15 hours ago) and read 2564 times:
GEG would make a great little hub for someone if they wanted too. Pretty sad flying most pax's to SEA or PDX for connections. I would love to see a non-stop GEG-YVR. Robert NWDC10
N1120A From United States of America, joined Dec 2003, 25852 posts, RR: 79 Reply 9, posted (7 years 3 months 3 weeks 1 day 15 hours ago) and read 2556 times:
Quoting Planecrazy2 (Reply 7): Where did you get the 7in more figure from? Seatguru says the Q400 has 31-32.0" pitch and the CRJ has 31.0" pitch.
I have read in a few places that they have a 38" pitch. Strange.
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Chugach From United States of America, joined Dec 2004, 1041 posts, RR: 3 Reply 10, posted (7 years 3 months 3 weeks 1 day 14 hours ago) and read 2530 times:
Quoting N1120A (Reply 9): I have read in a few places that they have a 38" pitch. Strange.
They used to have 34" pitch, then they added extra seats and now it's down to 32"-ish pitch. Still a comfortable ride, though.
Centrair From Japan, joined Jan 2005, 3597 posts, RR: 21 Reply 11, posted (7 years 3 months 3 weeks 1 day 14 hours ago) and read 2518 times:
So when is United Express going to go head to take more of NW's market in the upper midwest and plains. UA used to serve places like CWA with 6 flights a day. Now its down to 3 or something. NW on the otherhand is at 14 total arrivals and departures to MSP and DTW. UA could do small midwest station to SFO and make a nice little bit of cash.
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N1120A From United States of America, joined Dec 2003, 25852 posts, RR: 79 Reply 12, posted (7 years 3 months 3 weeks 1 day 14 hours ago) and read 2518 times:
Quoting Chugach (Reply 10): They used to have 34" pitch, then they added extra seats and now it's down to 32"-ish pitch. Still a comfortable ride, though.
Ah, that is too bad. I guess they still give the free beer so people can conk out.
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MtnWest1979 From United States of America, joined Nov 2005, 2122 posts, RR: 1 Reply 13, posted (7 years 3 months 3 weeks 1 day 5 hours ago) and read 2420 times:
Quoting B757capt (Reply 5): I'm surprised that UA didn't do this already. hmmmm interesting.
They did, but 25 years ago.
Quoting NWDC10 (Reply 8): I would love to see a non-stop GEG-YVR. Robert NWDC10
Probably not enough o & d on this route. Unless you had ACJazz w/ a dh8-300. But even that would be too big.
I remember when GEG was little more than a tech stop on Frontier's DEN-GEG-YVR routes, and Hughes Airwest to YYC, and UA's old DEN-GEG-YYC routings.
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