Originally Posted by
spaaks
They can hope and pray the FAA gives them a cert to do it but history shows them being unsuccessful. If it were that easy and the FAA held their hand don't you think united mainline would be flying in there?
I think the 737-700 has the single engine climb performance but it's too big due to size restrictions.
Also, the IAH-QRO and IAH-BJX routes still showed SkyWest until the last minute, and we knew Mesa was taking over those routes.