Originally Posted by
ShyGuy
And who relaxed the scope during the early to mid 90s on RJs, to protect widebody pay and other issues?
That's right, mainline pilots back in the day.
Mesaba is getting 36 CRJ900s (equipped with 76 seats)? The way I see it, this is a direct one-on-one replacement for the Avros they lost. There used to be 36, and all of them are gone, and many Mesaba pilots were laid off. This new flying will only help bring back Mesaba to where it was before.
The avro is a niche airplane, used ofr certain routes. If there ever was an "exception" for the madness, the avro was one. The 900 is not in the same category.