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Mesa may be getting 50 seaters in the future as there is still a market for them. But as of right now Mesa only has 1 50 seater and the rest are 70/76 seaters, a large percentage of which are less than 10 years old, for both AAG and UAL with more of those to come.
TSA is a getting some extremely used XJT 50 seaters.
Oil is coming down which does make the CASM on the 50 seater better, but have you seen improvements for the PAX on those 50 seaters? At UAL we are adding wi-fi to all CR7 and EJET aircraft, nothing for the 50 seaters. My guess is because they are not in the long term fleet plan at UAL, but hey congrats on the upgrade!
Fact: 50 seat aircraft will be around for at least another decade. They most definitely won't be in the large numbers we see now, but they will continue to be profitable.
Fact: Anyone who uses 50-seaters as a long term plan is not a smart person. That being said, the people who run airlines, while disliked, are not dumb...especially if they survived 2001-2008. You can sit here and pretend to know what "the industry" is doing, but in reality, you have no clue. Neither do I. No one really knows what discussions people are having behind closed doors in Chicago or Dallas. Especially at a private company. If I owned an airline though? I wouldn't be setting myself to lose everything.