[4K] - Full Flight - United Express - Bombardier CRJ-200LR - DEN-TUL - N983SW - UA4743 - IFS 922

[@tedmaster82]

I rode a United Express from Houston to Nashville yesterday. It was really nice

[@jeremy1350]

Hey Traveler, Homeward Bound again ... Destination Tulsa !! " Ok Rudolph, Full Power, Up Up and Away !!!! "

[@azamyahmad]

There you go again absolutely another spectacular beautiful shooting filming footage compilation travel trip reports and gorgeous settings presentation camera work, captured beautiful shooting view and you nailed it again, TQSM ! ..

[@td77331]

CRJ looks fast and fun to fly on

[@Sammysaviation]

Great video as always! Surprising that they deploy such little aircraft to Tulsa. It seems like TUL-DEN would be a much higher demand route.

[@sla31]

It's a geographic problem, not a demand problem. I've actually talked to TUL's route planning team about this exact thing. United could easily fill A320's and 737's all day out of TUL, but they consistently send their regional partners to TUL instead of mainline. And it all boils down to where Tulsa is geographically compared to United's hubs. In particular, IAH, DEN, and ORD. Where most of the traffic from Tulsa is going. Tulsa is right smack dab in the middle of those and it's basically 500 miles to each. The perfect route length for regionals. When I asked one the guys at TUL why they sent 50 seaters to Tulsa when the flights are always packed, he said because of two things. First, United has to send the regionals somewhere and we're in the 500 mile circle. They like to send the regionals on a lot of short flights and save their mainline aircraft for longer routes. So Tulsa is at a geographic disadvantage there. And second, there's only so many flights the mainlines can do, and United can make more sending that A320 to Burbank or San Francisco, or Seattle, then they can to Tulsa. Basically, it's not that they couldn't fill the planes. They could. But they'll make more flying that mainline plane to the coast, and they need to send the regional somewhere. It's a similar story at XNA and SGF too. The other legacies send mainline planes into those airports, where United only sends 50-76 seat regionals.

[@allanpeters4403]

When I worked for UAL the only fancy painted plane was a 727 that the Washington Redskins were flown around to away games on - that one in the beginning of your post was interesting. Tks

[@MileHigh_Aviation]

ah the famous 90 minute taxi at denver 😆

[@sla31]

😆

[@nikolauswolff5791]

The wing man in Denver almost looked into the cabin at pushback. 😅 Nice wide open land in Oklahoma.

[@faraadkhan3004]

Nice flight SP good job 👍

[@sla31]

Thanks my friend!

[@LifeWithShawn2024]

1:23:20 - If you look closely at the terrain below , you can see small white structures , which I assume they're windmills

[@almach6279]

Looks like it. I think I flew over them one evening several years back--lots of little red lights across the landscape, that all turned on and off at the same time. I also passed a few wind turbine blades as they were being transported on I-80, and they're... not small.

[@vanhalo]

Sorry you had to endure the CRJ200. Was your neck feeling awful? I also rode on Skywest 4743, but not to Tulsa. As of June 2024, it became the 2nd daily Amarillo-Denver flight.

[@Saa42808]

👍

[@abdullah_awan36]

Day 1 of asking to fly United Airlines IAD - CDG or IAD - LHR

[@sla31]

Well you can certainly ask every day, but I can tell you it's not happening until 2025 as the earliest as I'm almost done flying for the year haha.

[@abdullah_awan36]

@@sla31 Alright. Could you add it to your bucket list tho? 😂

[@crystalc1ear]

They're still flying these dreadful old sardine tins?

[@sla31]

Unfortunately, yes haha.

[@anton8019]

Blame Skywest.

[@AdenVo-t4j]

Do you avoid crj900

[@sla31]

I avoid all CRJ's.

[@darkangelgaming1117]

A CRJ-200, ewwww. Hope you liked being a sardine. 😂

[@GarlandTexasSpotter2024]

There not too bad honestly, of course it’s not comfy as a Embraer E145 or A220, but at least it will take you to your destination 😂

[@darkangelgaming1117]

@@GarlandTexasSpotter2024 I am just teasing him since he flies so much. I have gotten spoiled as 95% of what I fly now is E175's and A319's when I travel.

[@sla31]

They can't all be wasting away in the desert soon enough 😆.