Originally Posted by airlinepilot50

The E175 sim arrived on property last week. The E175 is the most profitable regional jet, w/UA owning 50% of XJT, they will bring as many E175s on property as they can. Why would UA want other regionals to make money on this profitable a/c? Republic and Mesa FOs will leave to XJT once they notice our upgrade time drops to less than two years with help from United taking back the E175s from Republic and Mesa. Another option for XJT to grow the E175 would be from UA replacing the CRJ 700s with the E175SC (70 seat configuration).