Originally Posted by
RawHide
The issue here is United’s scope clause is different than Americans. At United a 700 is equal to a 175 so they are parking 700s to get new 175s. Now they figured out a way to reconfigure them into 50 seaters that some bean counter thinks will make a profit.
^^^^ this.
AA scope is 50-65 seats is a small RJ, hence why PSA, Envoy, and SkyWest already have 63 and 65 seat CRJ700s.