Originally Posted by
KC10 FATboy
BINGO !!! People are finally starting to get it.
These new 76 seaters are going to be with us for a much longer time.
Economics has sentenced the 50 seaters to death. Even RA is on record admitting it.
So why would you want to keep RJs around longer, giving them newer shiny new jets?
Oh yeah, so we can get used 717s that nobody wants. Nevermind.
That's why I said you can tell they management is lying by the lack of a sunset/expiration in the large RJ's. They want a permanent fleet of outsourced large RJ's with mainline CASM and turnkey profitability. 70 and especially 90 seaters are long term career killers that will never, ever go away. 50 seaters are very costly place fillers and are self expiring. No wonder they want to make a trade.