Originally Posted by Ordell

https://www.runwaygirlnetwork.com/20...entry-service/

As Bombardier and Embraer concentrate their efforts on the higher end of the regional jet market, Japan’s regional jet — the 76-88 seat Mitsubishi MRJ — may find itself able to scoop up the lower end of the RJ demand. With a 76 seat capacity for the MRJ70, and 88 seats on the MRJ90, based on 31” seat pitch, these smaller aircraft may well fit into a niche defined partly by the scope clauses in US mainline carriers’ pilot contracts, and partly by new markets the efficient jetliner is able to create.

There is some potential to mop up this end of the market given that Embraer and Bombardier are both moving towards larger aircraft. Mitsubishi characterises the MRJ70 as the “only next-generation 70 seat regional jet”, the MRJ90 as a “feeder operation” and “market opener”, and the MRJ100X — which MRJ calls “planned” — as having the “best economics in 100 seat market”.

Mitsubishi’s market forecast sees 5,137 aircraft required in the next twenty years, the company reported last week at the Farnborough Air Show, with nearly 1,900 of those in North America making up 36% of the market, and almost 800 in Europe making a further 16%. China and the rest of the Asia Pacific market each make up 12% of the market with over 600 aircraft each.