Originally Posted by Santos Dumont

I think we might actually see Republic open up an E-170/175 domicile at IAH before SkyWest does so. SkyWest still has a shrunken CRJ domicile in IAH. RAH (first Shuttle and nowadays Republic) has had a strong presence at IAH since the beginning of the UA CO merger, and they have enough flying to support a domicile there. They just don't have the domicile because it goes against their (in my opinion non-sense) outstation base system. Also, we have to remember that the main reason we got the additional 18 E-175s was because Republic was restructuring and fixing their staffing issues. Once they are up and running back again they will be in a good position to take their airframes back. But then again, I presume that Mesa's performance will have to decline due to staffing issues, before United takes the flying away from us.