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I was discussing the disappearance of the 737-200 though. 156 of them in 2000 and 0 around by the time we had 255 CRJ-700/900/E170/E175s flying around. FWIW, except for the E170s those other airplanes are according to wikipedia longer than the 732.
Three questions:
1. If regional flying YOY is decreasing, why then did we bother allowing more jumbo RJs in exchange for 717s and fewer CRJ-200s if they were going to go away anyways? We haven't gotten any 717s yet, so no new super premium regional jets are allowed, so no reason to drop 50 seaters unless they were not wanted anyways and/or we could live without them anyways, right?
2. DCI decreasing, what about jumbo RJs, did they decrease? Did they break that out?
3. Related to question 3, if for some reason they're cutting or reducing jumbo RJ use... is that a bad sign for our management team to purchase expensive new RJs and then not use them while turning around and ordering 70 more in December 2012 ?
Delta orders up to 70 Bombardier regional jets | Business & Technology | The Seattle TimesI'm going to beat the jumbo and super premium jumbo RJ drum until at least C2015.
Wrong again, we never had 156 737-200's. We had I believe 54-56.Back then the fleet consisted of 14 MD-11's, 55-60 L-1011's, the ER's, 16 767-200's, the domestic 767-300's, 70 737-800's, 125ish 727's, the 73G, some 737-300's that were former Western, the MD-88's and MD-90's, and the 54-56 737-200's.