Skip LAX: JSX bets on turboprops with Santa Monica–Las Vegas flights, Scottsdale next
Santa Monica, Calif., Jan 17, 2026, 05:17 PST JSX is betting on a comeback for turboprops among U.S. travelers, launching ATR 42-600 flights from Santa Monica to Las Vegas and setting a Santa Monica-Scottsdale route to start Jan. 22. “The reason we’re running the experiment is to run the experiment,” CEO Alex Wilcox told The Points Guy. (The Points Guy) The wager comes as turboprops — those propeller planes mostly gone from U.S. scheduled flights — reemerge as a cost-effective fix for thin routes. ATR pointed to the phaseout of older 50-seat regional jets, calling it a “connectivity gap.” Wilcox