Originally Posted by
Wynncore
Any regional airline, no matter the size is expendable and can be shut down. ExpressJet is 50%-55% smaller today compared to late 2010 and the forecast is for it to shrink even further.
Just to emphasize this point even more, the high water make for XJT was in late 2008 with 274 aircraft and over 3,000 pilots. Now it is down to about 130 aircraft, scheduled to be down to 101 by the end of 2017 and half the pilots. And the CPA is scheduled to end at the end of 2018.