Originally Posted by
BeechPilot33
How to get around scope? Yank out 6 seats and call a 76 seater a 70 seater and replace 717 routes and jobs with 175's and regional pilots.
Brillant.
These are not additional airframes. They are replacements for aircraft being phased out. I don't like that they are E175's and suspect that at some point the company will push us to add the 6 seats back. They are not however replacing anything at the mainline.