Aspen/Pitkin County Airport (ASE) is finally getting more comfortable commercial jet service as of today, which is an exciting development for those traveling to the airport.
Continue reading: Aspen Airport Finally Gets Embraer E175 Flights!
Share your questions, experiences, and thoughts below.
the locals lost... as they should have.
The complaints were petty.
Now bring on the A220
I used to fly there in the CRJ, the ERJ is gonna be crazy weight restricted especially with weather. Also it’s the same approach, ERJ wont get in anymore than the CRJ already does, no difference. Yes it’s more comfortable but there’s gonna be way more weight restrictions.
Couldn’t help but notice that you never said what airline is actually operating these flights. Aspen is a very tricky airport to fly into, complicated by their weather and the high terrain around the airport. Not all regional carriers are created equal and not all regional carriers are up to the challenges of operating into and out of ASE. I’ll wait for the A220s.
For those who are interested, Wendover has a good video about this issue and the debate over widening the spacing of the airport's runways.
SkyWest flies all Airliners into ASE, only carrier certified to do it, with their own special program.
My husband was in the cockpit today, a very proud day for all the hard work by so many that went into making this day possible for SkyWest!
Also, Darren Byrd has a video about his different type ratings. For the CRJ-700 he mentions that it has way more excess engine thrust than the E175. His favourite plane is the E135/140/145 since no one has ever died on one.
Does E175 have the range for them to add a NYC direct flight? That would be amazing.
Oh thank goodness. Super excited by this and can't wait to start flying them into ASE in Jan. UA has already updated their schedules w/ E175s for this winter season, so I'm guessing AA and DL will follow suit for the summer or next winter.
Not as premium an airline as UA - only the most premium one can fly in to Aspen with the E75.
A big situation with restricted landings and the CRJ700 was lack of instrumentation support for assistance during reduced visibility. My understanding from being at some of the early presentations at town council meetings was that the E175 would support more advanced avionics and would improve arrivals during storms.
@UA-NYC, wish I could disagree, but you can't argue with facts. Premium service to premium destinations.
Their are no publicly published RNP approaches into ASE unless Skywest develops one. I'm assuming a CRJ can't fly an RNP approach due to the lack of VNAV. The only publicly published approaches are a GPS and a localizer approach which both aircraft can fly. Now if the E175 is category B for approaches (don't think it is, this will make a difference)
