Originally Posted by Ordell

I'm not that naive, I know the big two play off each other. But we're talking placing an order of 100, which undoubtedly played a role in Mitsubishi going ahead with the project.

They don't have a lot of orders yet. It'll probably help when they finally get a plane to Farnborough to show it off. But here is where it stands, according to Wiki:

Airline Firm orders Options
All Nippon Airways 15 10
Trans States Holdings 50 50
SkyWest, Inc. 100 100
Eastern Air Lines 20 20* *Purchase rights (MoU)
Air Mandalay 6 4
Japan Airlines 32
Total 223 184

So SkyWest has placed far and away the biggest order.