Word: paffenroth
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Dates: during 1997-1997
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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...
...Paffenroth is one of the 7 million 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...
...such cities as St. Louis, Allentown and Wilkes-Barre, Pa., and let Comair offer service. "All our service now from St. Louis to Cincinnati is Comair service," says David Anderson, a Delta executive in Cincinnati. There are even some advantages to the smaller jets. Says Paffenroth: "This is every bit as quick as a large plane, and it loads and unloads much faster. And there are no middle seats...
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