Originally Posted by
youngin50
I'm a CFI and sat through a Skywest presentation sometime ago and was told Skywest controls the whole EMB-175 market. That if a airline wants to get a new EMB-175 they must go through Skywest. I thought that was interesting. Than I heard from some other CFIs who are envoy pipeline people that Envoy is getting 100 EMB-175 from somewhere. Just thought it was interesting to hear. Figured some of yall would have a good idea of whats going on with that.
Lol wut?
I never heard anything about Skywest controlling the E-175 market. Republic is the largest operator of E-175. Envoy is getting 40 from what I heard. Wikipedia shows 40 orders and 90 options for Envoy.
Maybe what they meant was that since Skywest has so many orders and options (including the E2), other orders have to get in line, but that's the only thing I can think of. Compass also has a good number of E175s.