Originally Posted by chrisreedrules

AAG owns some of the Mesa 900s or is the main creditor for them etc... If they wanted to move them from Mesa they could.

I do not believe AAG owns any SkyWest 700s.

AAG is parking all of the CRJ200s at PSA and replacing them with CRJ900NGs beginning 2019 and likely culminating 2021/2022.

The 175s at Compass will likely come back in-house to Envoy at some point. I know this has been said for a long while now but there is no reason AAG wouldn’t want these at Envoy. I think more of this will play out once TSH is either broken up and sold or purchased by someone outright. I believe that if Republic had been successful in purchasing Compass the 175s would have likely stayed at RAH. Now I think it’s more likely than ever that Envoy will get those 175s back.

Piedmont and the 145s is still a bit of a question mark. They were originally told that they would be getting 175s but the story I heard was that the FAA wouldn’t certify them to go to a 175 from the Dash8, so the compromise was to fly 145s? But there will always be a market on the east coast for a 50-seat or smaller light jet to serve many of the prolific smaller markets that simply don’t support a larger aircraft.

The way I see it is Envoy will eventually fly primarily the 175. PSA will fly the 700/900. And Piedmont will fly 145s until they decide to do something else with them. Republic will fly 175s and SkyWest will fly CRJs for AAG. All others I think are uncertain.

I also wouldn’t count out the possibility of AAG purchasing another regional at some point and making them a WO. As their retirements really hit the accelerator they may be looking at ways to not only secure more reliable regional feed but also a cost-effective pipeline to fill their mainline aircraft...