Originally Posted by
calmwinds
United is capped out on 70 seaters and 76 seaters by United’s pilot contract. Their only option is to swap out 70 seaters for 70 seaters. These E175’s are the 70 seat E175SC variant.
GoJet is the logical place where these will come from. GoJet has exactly 25 700’s. SkyWest just received a renewal on their 700’s. The only other 700’s out there are ones that are on CPA from Mesa. So, I guess it is possible the loss could be a split of 700’s between GoJet and Mesa.
I see now. That makes more sense. Sure is a bummer they won't fly the 175s at mainline. I know the united pilots are pulling for them. They could also add more small narrow bodies and not have to get rid of the 700s but that doesn't seem likely either.