Originally Posted by sailingfun

The lawyers at Mitsubishi and Embraer have been all over those scope clauses for the last 5 years and they have not cracked them. The E2 is on hold hoping they change. The MRJ is on the slow boat to China because there is no point in entering production. More important than what you post is that if Skywest wants to operate those airframes they become a competitor and nobody is going to subsidize a competitor by giving them flying. Read the many statements by the CEO's of the above companies on scope and report back what you find.