Originally Posted by
eaglefly
I don't think anyone's scope clause allows 86,000 RJ's. I'll have to check, but that sounds a bit on the high-side. As for the rest of your post, that fight was forfeited long ago. Seeing how you feel this way, my advice is to put your thrust-lever hand where your mouth is and pull it back and walk away from the beloved RJ. Many pilots feel differently than you do and advocate more and larger jets at their regionals, thus there's plenty of "selling out" going around.
DAL, UAL, AMR, and LCC all have that limitation of 86,000 pounds for regional airplanes. This allows E170/E175 and CRJ 900s. Our E175s actually have a MTOW of 89,000 pounds, for which there is a cutout in DAL's scope language for our 36 airplanes that were a part of the merger of NWA/CPZ with Delta Air Lines. CPZ was by default because they were wholly owned by NWA at the time of merger.