Word: comair
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...passengers who are 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...
...guys were beaten to the punch by Comair, a commuter airline partly owned by Delta that now uses CRJs for 80% of its seating capacity. The carrier is adding one jet a month at least until the end of 1998, with conditional orders for 12 and options for 45. "The regional jet has really allowed them to go out there and serve some markets they couldn't serve with the turboprops," says Robert Holscher, director of aviation at Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport. "It's allowing feed into this airport by markets that couldn't be served profitably by Delta...
...extension, the markets that can be 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...
...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...
...regional carriers and their affiliates, it all means more profits. The Canadair Regional Jet has a sticker price of $18 million, vs. $7.5 million for an Embraer Brasilia, a popular 30-seat turboprop, but because the jet generates higher revenues, it has been profitable for Comair since its first month of operation. It has also fueled growth for Comair. The carrier's revenues have more than doubled since 1993, the year Comair started flying jets, to $564 million in fiscal 1997. Profits have risen meteorically: last year Comair posted net income of $75.4 million, an increase of 291% from...