Part 121 Regulations Question

Jose wrote:

I'm not sure that's true (though I haven't reviewed the stats). I do
know that people are plowing money into this air taxi stuff,

In other words, the airlines are driving away the folks who fly
business or first class, and tend to pay full price; nice business
plan :-) no matter how much money you fork off for a plane ticket,
you still end up having to go through the same crap, delays,
'security' screening, etc. (you won't take off until the last
passenger is in) ok, you might benefit from some kind
of priority as compared to the folks travelling in cattle class, but
the difference is not worth the cost.

Sorry to be so ignorant, but how much does it cost these days to
fly with air taxi as compared to flying business/first class with
the airlines? do you guys reckon that these new VLJ coming up will
have an impact on that market? ok, it won't compete on the long
range flights, but what about the short haul? and where do
airlines get their revenues these days? short or long haul?

--Sylvain