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Direct flights and flights more often. There’s more than enough DC-SF traffic to fill a couple of 777s a day, but people would rather have six 737s or A320s wit
by mikeash 8y ago
Direct flights and flights more often. There’s more than enough DC-SF traffic to fill a couple of 777s a day, but people would rather have six 737s or A320s with a wider variety of departure times to choose from.
- asdfadsfgfdda 8y agoI would also rather board the plane in 20 minutes instead of 50+ minutes for a widebody, not to mention deplaning and waiting for checked bags.
- LeifCarrotson 8y agoI personally wouldn't. I need an early and a late flight. The driver for all the departure times is, again, efficiency and money. If you had 777 flights from DC to SF and SF to DC at 6:00AM and 6:00PM, I'd be content, and I think you would satisfy most needs if everyone could fit on those flights. But then you have a 777 idle for 16 hours a day. If, instead, you had CRJ200s (that can't handle the morning and evening rush) running all day as fast as you can turn them around, they're never idle. I guess the final point is that people vote with their wallets and fly on the airline with the cheaper CRJ200 tickets...but I wish it wasn't that way.
- mikeash 8y agoYou need an early flight and a late flight. Bob needs flights in the middle of the day. Jane prefers mid afternoon. Any given individual only needs one flight at one time, but passengers as a whole want options.
- gok 8y agoUnited in fact does fly one 777 flight on that route each way but it goes the other way (DC->SF at night, SF->DC in the morning). Big planes rarely idle much. The domestic legs are generally tacked onto longer haul flights to/from Europe and Asia.