Originally Posted by
johnso29
I'm not familiar with the fuel burn rate of the CRJ900 or E175, so I won't comment on that. But I'm not certain that Delta ordered the CRJ900 over the E175 simply because it's cheaper to operate. Keep in mind that Delta is trading in hundreds of CRJ100/200s for 40-70 CRJ900s. Also, 9e already operated the CRJ900. So it was an easy placement of deliveries because the training program, manuals, etc already existed.
I didn't say that Delta went with the CRJ just because lower fuel consumption, below is my first sentence. I concluded by saying that if Delta made wanted the Ejets so much they would have gotten those instead.
Originally Posted by
What
Delta might like E175s but ordered 40 CRJs with option for 30 more. Money talks, they were able to get a better deal and way to unload the CRJ200s so they went with CRJs, if they loved the Ejets so much they would have just gotten Ejets.