This means that all services to Jackson, Little Rock, Mobile and Birmingham have been suspended by any United/United Express aircraft. does anyone know why? Could they just combine some routes? like ORD-BHM-MOB and still make a profit? They lost a lot of the southeast market. too bad.
-TWA902fly
Chicago Illinois
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SFOintern From United States of America, joined Oct 2001, 770 posts, RR: 5 Reply 1, posted (11 years 5 months 3 weeks 5 days 4 hours ago) and read 829 times:
AWAC has relocated these aircraft to the west coast market. United Express, Skywest in conjunction with Air Wisconsin, added 30 RJ flights at LAX to help displace the loss of 34 mainline/United Shuttle flights.
Don't worry, once AWAC and ACAI have more RJs, they'll come back.
The United Express system is scheduled to have 296 RJs by the end of 2003, and now with some accelerated deliveries, that number will only grow faster from the less than 100 today.
Am expecting ARJX and CRJ-700/900 orders from Airwis, as well as more 728/928Jet orders from ACAI. Possible move for more Skywest orders as well (CRJ-700/900). This all depends on how United's pilots will treat regional carrier growth.
Twa902fly From United States of America, joined Dec 1999, 3048 posts, RR: 4 Reply 3, posted (11 years 5 months 3 weeks 5 days 3 hours ago) and read 810 times:
i am not talking about Atlantic Coast Jet... I am talking about Atlantic Coast Airlines.
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SegmentKing From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 5, posted (11 years 5 months 3 weeks 5 days 3 hours ago) and read 802 times:
Hass,
Air Wisky is trying to renegotiate with United to order 35 ARJX 100 aircraft to fly on many old United routes such as BNA, MBS, FSD, etc. United is begging ALPA for an increase (right now it's set at 5 of those aircraft of size). Air Wisky is also talking about replacing the single -100 and 12 -200s for 15 ARJX 85s (2 of which would be operational spares).
BA From United States of America, joined May 2000, 11135 posts, RR: 61 Reply 6, posted (11 years 5 months 3 weeks 5 days 3 hours ago) and read 798 times:
As SFOintern and SegmentKing said, expect an Avro RJX order from Air Wisconsin VERY soon.
I think its very likely to happen. They've been looking into the aircraft for 2 years now.
Regards.
"Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need." - Khalil Gibran
BA From United States of America, joined May 2000, 11135 posts, RR: 61 Reply 7, posted (11 years 5 months 3 weeks 5 days 2 hours ago) and read 784 times:
I've heard that Air Wisconsin will most likely order a mix of the 3 versions, the Avro RJX-70, Avro RJX-85, and the Avro RJX-100.
Quite a nice aircraft if you ask me. I know many of you will beg to differ.
Avro RJX-85:
Avro RJX-100:
Anyone have any idea how old Air Wisconsin's BAe 146s are? I don't think they are very old.
I think its a bit too early for them to retire the BAe 146, but at the same time, I'm excited to see the Avro RJX in there fleet.
Regards.
"Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need." - Khalil Gibran
USFlyer MSP From United States of America, joined May 2000, 1784 posts, RR: 0 Reply 8, posted (11 years 5 months 3 weeks 5 days 2 hours ago) and read 778 times:
I don't think that it is AWAC that is hatin' on the south, its united in general. Most of the Cities united has dropped/downgraded have been in the south, and most of them are fairly substantial cities.
Changes since 1/01 in the real south (does not include Central or South Florida)
downgraded from ORD
MEM
BNA
RDU
JAX
TYS
ORF
Discontinued from ORD
LIT
BHM
MOB
TRI
Discontinued from IAD
MOB
TYS
SDF
LYH
Discontined from DEN
JAN
The only cities UA serves in the real south as of now with mainline jets are MSY,ATL, CLT, GSO, and RIC.
Jason Seiple From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 9, posted (11 years 5 months 3 weeks 4 days 22 hours ago) and read 744 times:
Don't forget the poor people of Lincoln, Nebraska... United went from B757 to B727/737... then said they needed more B737's for the Shuttle operation and replaced them with CRJ's and BAe-146's. Now with the west coast expansion, Lincoln has gone to DO-328's with one regional jet a day.
Kohflot From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 11, posted (11 years 5 months 3 weeks 4 days 17 hours ago) and read 719 times:
I'm not sure why the pilots at United would allow an RJX order when they're complaining about the number of RJs that UAX has to begin with.
As for ACAI, the 328Jet is only in Delta Connection colors right now..
And as for UAL "giving up" on the South.. If you were running a major airline that was bleeding, you'd look to see where it's hurting most. DL pretty much has a lock on biz travel in the South.. so why not put your bigger planes on routes that you know you can make money with and have the RJ feed your hubs from where you can fill them, but not a 737? In a perfect world, UAL would be sending mainline jets to all of the major southern destinations like BHM and BNA and RJs to smaller places like HSV and CHA.. but tough times have gotten even tougher in the last few months and it's just time to be defensive.
Johnboy From United States of America, joined Aug 1999, 2469 posts, RR: 1 Reply 12, posted (11 years 5 months 3 weeks 4 days 16 hours ago) and read 707 times:
It's interesting to me that DEN-JAN (mainline or RJ) even existed in the first place, yet a larger market like SDF never had any DEN flights (by UA anyway).
Twa902fly From United States of America, joined Dec 1999, 3048 posts, RR: 4 Reply 13, posted (11 years 5 months 3 weeks 4 days ago) and read 672 times:
yeah johnboy... its even more interesting that JAN was served from only DEN, and not ORD or IAD.
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Gsoflyer From United States of America, joined May 2001, 1090 posts, RR: 1 Reply 14, posted (11 years 5 months 3 weeks 3 days 12 hours ago) and read 639 times:
I don't think it is nessecarily that United hates the South at all.
Look at the cities that Unted downgraded from ORD. Guess what, American upgraded from all of them to ORD. The Cities that have mainline jet service to ORD have 0 American flights to ORD.
I can speak for GSO in that, American used to fly 4 flights to ORD and 4 to Dallas. All all but one late night F100 flight to Dallas have been canceled. Comair and Skywest have filled in that void.
SFOintern From United States of America, joined Oct 2001, 770 posts, RR: 5 Reply 15, posted (11 years 5 months 3 weeks 3 days 7 hours ago) and read 612 times:
There will be 32 328Jets with UEX/ACA by 2003.
By 2003, in addition to ZW's grandfathered 146s...
We will see:
85 Skywest CRJ-200s
84 Air Wisconsin CRJ-200s
32 ACA 328Jets
95 ACA CRJ-200s
Expect all these carriers to convert more options to orders. ACA had the 428Jet on order until i was cancelled, so perhaps we'll see a 528/728Jet order.
Flying-Tiger From Germany, joined Aug 1999, 4111 posts, RR: 39 Reply 16, posted (11 years 5 months 3 weeks 3 days 7 hours ago) and read 610 times:
I´minterested to see how Air Wisconsin will now decided since the Avro RJX series isn´t any longer an option. In the past they were said to be teh potential launch customer for the 728/928JET in the USA. Maybe this heats up...
Lately I heard that UA might increase its nummber of RJs again. Any truth in this?
LV From United States of America, joined Jun 2001, 1808 posts, RR: 0 Reply 17, posted (11 years 5 months 3 weeks 3 days 7 hours ago) and read 606 times:
Haven't you heard the old joke "If you die in the Southeast you have to go through Atlanta to get to heaven." I think we all know what airline that is a reference too!
Why try to compete against someone who has that much of a lock on the market, your just going to lose.
Only once have I traveled to the Southeast and not used DL. That was when AA first started DFW-SAV service (okay, its actually Eagle service) and was selling it really cheap just to get word out about it.
SegmentKing From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 18, posted (11 years 5 months 3 weeks 3 days 6 hours ago) and read 596 times:
Air Wisconsin is going to *have* to stay with the BAE - Avro family, even if it means picking up used birds... they're the only jet that can safely make it into Aspen, which is AWAC's bread-and-butter come winter (like 15 flights to DEN).
Info on the Air Wisky fleet:
The BAe 146-100 is an original delivery to AWAC in 1985 I believe.
The BAe 146-300 fleet was delivered new between 1989 and 1992 I believe. Only 5 were allowed.
The BAe 146-200 *original* fleet was delivered new between 1986 and 1989. They have some used birds from Tri Star Airlines, USAir, and one from Presidential I believe. Those were 1987 deliveries.
SFOintern From United States of America, joined Oct 2001, 770 posts, RR: 5 Reply 19, posted (11 years 5 months 3 weeks 3 days 4 hours ago) and read 582 times:
Flying-Tiger:
RE: Airwis & 146s... They need those quad-rod STOL (short take off and landing) aircraft, as nate said. (I chatted with an AWAC pilot last weekend).
These are the only aircraft that can safely operate throughout the rockies 100% of the time.
It's no secret United wants more RJs, and it's only a matter of time until the pilot's contract is renegotiated, with one of the new stipulations for that purpose.
Here's to seeing large RJs in the United/Express system!
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