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

"Sylvain" wrote in message
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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.

My airline status is primarilly due to frequency of travel more than the
price point of my tickets but the day they shut down everything in the UK,
because I have status on US Airways, I was through security at Sky Harbor in
Phoenix, AZ in less time than it often took BEFORE the UK incident.

Those in "cattle class" were in line for probably an hour at least.

SNIP

Jay B

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?

I'm also ignorant of exact numbers, but what I recall is that air taxi
is more expensive (per flight) but has the benefit of little or no
security hassle, and access to many little airports the commercial
operators don't fly into. This is attractive to business travellers.

Will the VLJs impact the market? Yes. Sufficiently? Dunno -
sufficiently to do what?

I don't know where the airlines get their revenues, but I suspect it's
from excess baggage charges.

Jose
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Jose wrote:

Will the VLJs impact the market? Yes. Sufficiently? Dunno -
sufficiently to do what?

sufficiently to change the airlines' attitude towards the rest
of us -- nothing like a little bit of competition to get better
service,

but then I am an optimist :-)

--Sylvain

ps and when I grow up I want my very own VLJ :-)