Originally Posted by
TalkTurkey
I'll just say that the shortage is not going to get any better as long as the big three are making record profits. There's less a need for us regional guys. Delta announced that they're going to continue reducing the amount of regional flying to bring it back in-house when they went public with the C-Series order. When the big three start loosing profits, they will cut cost, reduce RASM or whatever the heck capacity is, and beef up regionals again.
When did Delta go public with a C series order? Love to see it but have yet to see a single comment from Delta that they are buying that airframe. They have stated they need 50 additional mainline airframes to cover a shift in RJ flying over the next 4 years.