Originally Posted by
Mesabah
What does Delta do with all the 55 seater slots they own on the east coast, do they operate the CRJ 700 with 55 seats? You guys own ~100 per day at LGA alone, that's a massive amount of market share, and most slots, under the FAR 93.123 exception, are used for mainline aircraft.
55 seaters?
Well they can use 50 seaters. Or if they're desperate for those 5 seats, they can use 70 seaters with 55 installed, with a paperwork pencil whip recert if necessary. That would actually be a really nice product with a 3 class option, 2 bathrooms, a spare FA JS and an expanded galley and hardly ever a W&B issue. Or they can get someone to make a new 55 seater. If they run out of pilots (for the what they are offering anyway) they can pull down 90 seaters to fund the manpower and shift that reallocated flying to mainline in whatever airframe they want to. If that doesn't work, then it gets political and we can get the limits changed. I doubt it will come to that though.