There are a couple wild cards that are of interest. The Century CS-300 Canadair (120-140 seats) and the MRJ-90 (86-96 seats), both of which are in the scope prohibited range for most major scope agreements, but both also incorporate the newer geared turbofan, as in the Airbus NEO, which is a game changer. (on the order of 15+ percent fuel savings)

What I have to wonder is what Trans States (50 orders/50 options MRJ-90) and Chataqua (40/40 CS-300) are thinking by placing large orders of each. They each represent major investments into aircraft with no codeshare applicability.

Are they going to go it alone? They have to have a plan for such an investment. Any guesses? I think these orders were made over a year ago. I am sure that the AMR bankruptcy and potential Scope concessions are of interest to those operators.