Originally Posted by
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Precisely, given current scopes flying 100 seat GTFE mainline flights will become more profitable on long stage RJ routes. The “regional as network carrier” route structure is going to come to an end with Nextgen SNB, and regionals will return to what they once did, carry regional pax on short stages, 6 legs a day.
That is unless someone can get weight scope from their pilots, making 76 seat GTFE RJ the most profitable.
The Ejet is a weight scoped aircraft. It hauls 90K but Embraer scoped it’s certification down for the scope clauses. Gonna happen unless the E175 E2 coming in 2020 already has all the efficiencies that you are talking about. The E2 will start out scoped limited.