Chautauqua Airlines

Chautauqua was a Republic Airways Holdings subsidiary that flew regional jets for several major airlines, ending as Delta Connection. Its record here runs to 2014.

A passenger jet in silhouette against a red sunset — Illustrative photo, not an aircraft of Chautauqua Airlines.

3.3 millionpassengers, 2014
49seats per flight on average
366 milesaverage trip per passenger
34.8seat-miles per gallon

How it changed

Chautauqua Airlines carried 3.3 million passengers in 2014. Its busiest year was 2005, at 7.8 million.

Its average flight had 48 seats in 2002 and 49 in 2014. The average passenger flew 450 miles per segment in 2002 and 366 in 2014, and 76% of its seat-miles were filled in 2014.

Chautauqua Airlines passengers per year, 2002 to 2014.

Who it flew for

Chautauqua Airlines flew for more than one airline, and sometimes several at once. Our estimate of the split between them, which is based on the airports it serves, is too rough to publish for a regional like this. The summary at the top names its partners from public record.

Fuel

In 2014 Chautauqua Airlines burned 46 million gallons of jet fuel, which is 34.8 seat-miles per gallon and about 0.370 kg of CO2 per passenger-mile. Over 500 miles that's roughly 185 kg per passenger. Small regional aircraft burn more fuel per seat than the mainline jets, and a short hop spends a larger share of its fuel on take-off and climb, so these figures aren't graded against the airlines on the main list. Their flying and fuel are counted in the airlines whose names are on the tickets.

For some years Chautauqua Airlines didn't file usable fuel figures with BTS. In 10 of them we priced its own flight hours at the fuel burn per hour that other airlines reported for the same aircraft types that year. They're marked with an asterisk in the table below. See the methodology.

Year-by-year figures

Year	Passengers (millions)	Departures (thousands)	Seats per flight	Average trip (miles)	Load factor	Seat-miles (billions)	Seat-miles per gallon
2014	3.3	89	49.2	366	75.9%	1.61	34.8
2013	5.1	143	48.3	331	73.2%	2.29	34.0
2012	4.6	133	48.1	334	73.1%	2.12	62.1
2011	5.3	154	47.5	353	73.5%	2.55	34.2*
2010	5.8	167	47.3	368	74.6%	2.88	37.4*
2009	6.0	169	48.4	419	73.7%	3.38	38.2*
2008	7.5	216	47.9	437	73.1%	4.48	38.5*
2007	7.8	222	47.1	440	75.2%	4.56	38.6*
2006	6.8	202	46.9	416	72.5%	3.89	35.6*
2005	7.8	236	48.6	485	69.2%	5.47	37.5*
2004	6.2	203	46.7	472	66.5%	4.43	35.9*
2003	4.6	157	46.5	479	64.0%	3.46	34.3*
2002	0.9	30	48.0	450	62.6%	0.65	36.0*

Regionals with shared partners

These profiles have a partner airline in common with Chautauqua Airlines in at least one data year. The partner split is estimated, and the airlines may have flown for the shared network at different times.

Nearby in fuel efficiency

Neighbours in the seat-miles per gallon table, using each airline's last data year. Fuel estimates are marked on the profiles, and these aren't same-year rankings.

Trans States Airlines34.2 seat-miles per gallon, 2020 Comair34.4 seat-miles per gallon, 2012 CommuteAir38.2 seat-miles per gallon, 2025 PSA Airlines39.7 seat-miles per gallon, 2025

Airline references

Wikipedia: Chautauqua Airlines

Source: US Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS), T-100 traffic and Schedule T-2 fuel filings; US EPA jet-fuel CO2 factor. Methods and allocation limits.

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