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Robert Paffenroth, a regional account manager for Lucent Technologies, was relaxing on a recent flight from Cincinnati, Ohio, to New York City. He had left his home in Pittsburgh, Pa., the previous afternoon and flown to Raleigh, N.C., via Cincinnati and at 4:10 p.m. the next day was on his way to his office on Long Island. He had traveled all four legs on Comair's 50-seat Canadair Regional Jets. He was thrilled, a feeling that commuter-airline passengers usually get only in dicey weather. "I have some reservations when I'm told I'm flying a Delta...
...basking in the relative comfort, speed and convenience of regional jets--the 50-seat versions of bigger planes like the DC-9 or Boeing 737 that are changing the commuter-airline business and causing reverberations among the major airlines. Introduced in the U.S. in 1993 by Comair, a Cincinnati-based carrier and Delta partner, the twin-engine CRJ, made by Montreal's Bombardier, has become the mainstay of Comair's fleet. The CRJ and a rival regional made by Brazil's Embraer are steadily supplanting turbos. They had been stalled only by pilot unions at American Airlines and United Airlines...
...served. In smaller markets, most commuting passengers have no choice but to fly on turboprops, anything from the 19-seat Beech 1900 to the 70-seat ATR-72. But the new minijets can fly at higher altitudes and faster speeds than turboprops. Comair had five daily flights from Cincinnati to Appleton, Wis., a paper-industry center, on 30-seat Embraer turboprops. It now has six flights a day to Appleton, five of which use 50-seat jets. Says Michael Fletcher, a service engineer with Voith Sulzer PaperTechnology who travels frequently to Appleton: "This flight puts me in the heart...
...larger markets, regional jets are being used to complement the big tubes. Cincinnati to New York's LaGuardia is one of the Comair routes that was out of range of the turboprops. Delta, the nation's third largest carrier, is using Comair's smaller jets in at least two dozen cities--among them Minneapolis, Orlando, Kansas City and Philadelphia--to adjust capacity when demand is too low for bigger jets. Delta has pulled 737s or MD-80s out of such cities as St. Louis, Allentown and Wilkes-Barre, Pa., and let Comair offer service. "All our service now from...
...that baseball's over, other sports (thank Pete Rozelle) come to center stage. Lessons we learned from Week 9: Maybe Tampa Bay isn't as good as everyone thought. Maybe Cincinnati isn't as bad. And never, ever bet on a rookie quarterback to save the Arizona Cardinals...