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Sink r8
I'm assuming that's a rhetorical, but don't forget that when framing such a question, you have to specify "real-world", or "internet-based". On the internet, everyone wants the RJ's brought up to mainline, but no one flies them at $200/hr in a couple of years. In the real world, everyone also want the RJ flying brought in, and besides, they fly the 717 (a larger airplane) now, without any unfilled bids, at $195/hr.
It's complicated.
It isn't an rj and it isn't "being brought" to mainline.
It was already ours. It was a jet that Dalpa hadn't yet given up to the regionals.