Vendors Competing Against Other Vendors

This article describes the current competitive climate for regional airlines in the U.S., as they are meeting increasingly stringent demands from mainline carriers to reduce costs. The situation is a significant change from even the first five years of the millennium, when business was booming, and orders for regional jets were robust. Conditions prompted legacy airlines to use their clout to extract major fee concessions from regionals and pit them against one another. Now, the business is shrinking, and many regionals are overstocked with 50-seaters, for which there is not sufficient demand. Some companies are changing the way they operate to meet the new demands. The article describes the experiences of a number of regional airlines, which are renegotiating contracts with mainline carriers and expanding their customer base or opening their own feeder routes.

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• Authors:
  • Arnoult, Sandra
• Publication Date: 2007-5

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Figures; Photos;
• Pagination: pp 26-28, 30
• Serial:
  • ATW: Air Transport World
  • Volume: 44
  • Issue Number: 5
  • Publisher: Penton Media
  • ISSN: 0002-2543

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Competition; Low cost carriers; Passenger traffic; Regional airlines; Regional jets
• Subject Areas: Aviation; Economics;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01050333
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: UC Berkeley Transportation Library
• Files: BTRIS, TRIS
• Created Date: May 31 2007 7:29AM