Originally Posted by
ToiletDuck
People have said here a time or two that ExpressJet would like to operate on it's own and not as a regional contracting to other airlines. What would it take for this to happen?
The fundamental problem here is that RJ's are inefficient compared to mainline aircraft. Their only chance would be to selectively cherry-pick a number of small city-pairs which don't have enough pax to justify mainline service.