RASI Announces Regional Airlines At the Forefront of U.S. Air Service Changes Since September 11th.Business Editors WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 24, 2002 Regional airlines have played a critical role in maintaining air service at hundreds of American American, river, 30 mi (48 km) long, rising in N central Calif. in the Sierra Nevada and flowing SW into the Sacramento River at Sacramento. The discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill (see Sutter, John Augustus) along the river in 1848 led to the California gold rush of communities since the terrorist attacks on New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of and Washington last September. An analysis of nearly 1,500 individual U.S. routes reveals that during one of the most dramatic periods in modern aviation history, regional carriers have been at the forefront of air service changes, modifying their schedules at unprecedented rates. A year-over-year comparison of nonstop HP's brand name for its fault-tolerant servers, which range in size from four CPUs to 4,000 CPUs. The NonStop line was created by Tandem Computers, which was acquired by Compaq, which later became part of HP. air service patterns, undertaken by the Regional Air Service Initiative (RASI RASI Revised Approaches to Studying Inventory RASI Remote Access Subscriber Interface (Warfighter Information Network - Tactical) RASI Responsibility, Authority, Support, Inform (quality systems) ) www.regionalairservice.org, shows how flexible regional airlines were at responding to rapidly changing industry conditions, indicative of their unique ability to serve a wide variety of market types both efficiently and effectively. While a majority of regional carrier routes -- 59.1% -- received the same air service in January 2002 as 12-months ago, the remainder -- 41.9% -- experienced major qualitative changes. Highlights of the analysis include: -- Regional carriers introduced a total of 100 all-new routes. These markets received no nonstop service 12 months ago. Examples include: Salt Lake City - El Paso El Paso (ĕl pă`sō), city (1990 pop. 515,342), seat of El Paso co., extreme W Tex., on the Rio Grande opposite Juárez, Mex.; inc. 1873. (Delta Connection) and Phoenix - Stockton, CA (America West Express America West Express was the name for America West Airlines commuter and regional flights operated by Mesa Air Group's Mesa Airlines under a code share agreement. Today Mesa Airlines operates for US Airways Express. ). Seventy-seven (77) of the 100 new routes are served by regional jets (RJ's) exclusively and 20 with turboprops exclusively; -- Regional carriers replaced all major carrier service in 108 markets. Nearly two-thirds (69) of this total were receiving some complementary (joint major and regional carrier) schedules on the same route last year; -- Regional carriers introduced complementary (joint flights with major carriers) schedules on nearly 90 individual routes served exclusively by major carriers one year ago. Examples include: Detroit -Nashville (Northwest Airlink) and Pittsburgh - Louisville (US Airways Express US Airways Express is an airline brand name, rather than a fully certificated airline, and as such, the US Airways Express name is used by several individually owned airlines or airline holding companies which provide regional airline and commuter service for US Airways. ); -- Regional carriers upgraded service from turboprop turboprop: see turbine. turboprop Hybrid engine that provides jet thrust and also drives a propeller. It is similar to the turbojet except that an added turbine, behind the combustion chamber, works through a shaft and speed-reducing gears to turn a to either partial or entirely Regional Jet (RJ) operations in 90 markets. Nevertheless, turboprop aircraft continue to serve a significant share (43.3%) of all U.S. regional markets; -- Regional carriers ceased all service in 128 markets, 47 of which were served exclusively with regional jets (RJ's) in January 2001 and 78 exclusively by turboprops during the same period. A detailed summary of these and other regional airline air service changes, including a down-loadable version, are available on the RASI website: www.regionalairservice.org/images/Summary-Jan-02.pdf Background: The Regional Air Service Initiative (RASI) was established in early-2001 to promote local air service for the 21st Century. It is a joint program of key industry suppliers working with the Regional Airline Association. |
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