Timberwolf24 From United States of America, joined Jun 2001, 562 posts, RR: 1 Posted (11 years 5 months 1 week 2 days 20 hours ago) and read 1118 times:
I have hear a rumor that Chicago Express-ATA Connection is looking to open 4-5 new cities mainly west of Chicago this spring. Do they have the aircraft to do this type of expantion or will they be adding more Saabs to their fleet and what cities are they looking at?
JonnyGT From United States of America, joined Oct 2001, 241 posts, RR: 1 Reply 5, posted (11 years 5 months 1 week 2 days 7 hours ago) and read 929 times:
Whoa whoa whoa, ILS, what happened to Boeing757Fan? Wasn't he the guy from Michigan?
Bombayhog From United States of America, joined May 2001, 554 posts, RR: 0 Reply 7, posted (11 years 5 months 1 week 2 days 6 hours ago) and read 928 times:
5280AGL From United States of America, joined Apr 2001, 414 posts, RR: 1 Reply 8, posted (11 years 5 months 1 week 2 days 6 hours ago) and read 918 times:
I have heard these rumors as well. As far as I know, the cities mentioned were Kansas City, Omaha, Louisville, and Columbus. Makes sense, all are large cities with no current ATA service of any kind.
Lindy field From United States of America, joined Mar 2001, 3072 posts, RR: 15 Reply 10, posted (11 years 5 months 1 week 2 days 5 hours ago) and read 902 times:
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Perhaps ATA Connection should pick up some RJs... but I imagine there's lots of props available on the second-hand market.
CactusA319 From United States of America, joined Jan 2000, 2918 posts, RR: 29 Reply 11, posted (11 years 5 months 1 week 2 days 4 hours ago) and read 886 times:
I agree with Lindy field. Chicago Express should pick up some RJ's to do medium-size cities that ATA does not serve. Even though there is a huge backlog of orders for RJ's, haven't some regionals been deferring their orders?
Anyway, the Saab 340 is a fine a/c. It seats 33 in the Chicago Express config. However if they're going to open new cities with those aircraft, they're probably not going to be very large cities, so forget OMA, MCI, and CMH. Those fall under the RJ category.
Access-Air From United States of America, joined Sep 2000, 1939 posts, RR: 15 Reply 12, posted (11 years 5 months 1 week 2 days 2 hours ago) and read 868 times:
What Chicago Express needs to do is start flying to some of the cities in Illinois....like Peoria, Moline/Quad Cities, Rockford and maybe Bloomington or Chanpaign/Urbana. Those citys have a lot of traffic to be had and some are large college towns...The could maybe try going to Cedar Rapids and or Waterloo....there are many shorter haul routes that could use an alternat to over crowded Ohare...Lets not forget that Sioux City has no direct air link to Chicago...only to St. Louis and Minneapolis.....so there are many possibilities...Yes and Traverse city would be good!!!
CactusA319 From United States of America, joined Jan 2000, 2918 posts, RR: 29 Reply 13, posted (11 years 5 months 1 week 2 days 2 hours ago) and read 868 times:
Well if they were to keep the Saab's and expand they could do:
Bloomington
Champaign
Carbondale (no air service between Southern Illinois and Chicago)
Peoria
Moline
TVC (why not?)
Toledo
Evansville, IN
Anything farther than that should be done with RJ's I think.
Timberwolf24 From United States of America, joined Jun 2001, 562 posts, RR: 1 Reply 14, posted (11 years 5 months 1 week 2 days ago) and read 850 times:
It would be nice to see Chicago Express with RJs to open up more of the midwest market. As for the new cities I have heard they will be farther west than the rockies.
Lowfareair From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 16, posted (11 years 5 months 1 week 1 day 19 hours ago) and read 819 times:
Correct me if I'm wrong but I don't think that ATA serves any airport in Il. other than MDW. One or more destinations should be towns in Il with high-fare service to get some more political power. After that, serve the larger towns such as CMH or OMA.
CactusA319 From United States of America, joined Jan 2000, 2918 posts, RR: 29 Reply 17, posted (11 years 5 months 1 week 1 day 9 hours ago) and read 793 times:
Actually they recently started Connection service to Springfield, IL which is the state capitol.
DCA-ROCguy From United States of America, joined Apr 2000, 4402 posts, RR: 37 Reply 19, posted (11 years 5 months 1 week 1 day 7 hours ago) and read 774 times:
The only problem with using RJ's is that they tend to high-seat-mile costs. ATA is a low-fare carrier, and as far as I know, RJ's don't have low-enough seat-mile costs to be economical for a low-fare carrier.
ATA will probably have to stick to turboprops if it wants to do regional services and keep seat-mile costs low. The Saab isn't a bad plane as far as turboprops go, and they could get the Saab 2000 for a 50-seater. They'd probably not want to fly turboprops any further than say Nebraska to the west, Tennessee to the south, and Pennsylvania or Upstate NY to the east.
FrequentFlyKid From United States of America, joined Nov 2001, 1197 posts, RR: 1 Reply 20, posted (11 years 5 months 1 week 1 day 7 hours ago) and read 773 times:
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