Originally Posted by
jsled
For the long term, maybe it's not a bad thing. But looking at the press releases from earlier this year, UAL ordered 40 and then another 25 700s to be delivered starting mid to late 2017 to "reduce it's 50 seat fleet of RJs by more than half by 2019". So, what are they going to do to cut the RJs now? Buy the CS100? E2? Buy more used 737s/A319s? Keep the RJs? It certainly raises questions.
Best guess is an order after the first of the year of a SNB thus allowing more lift at mainline, and if I'm not mistaken allows United to increase the number of large RJ's. Further down the line wouldn't be surprised to see some combo of less 737, more Airbus's. Either new or used depending on the economy. If new at this point they would be foolish not to wait for the Max and NEO respectively in terms of fuel economy.
So yeah basically what you said
