Originally Posted by
pangolin
The issue isn't the airframe. It's who flies it. Mainline is willing to let the airline get 100 seaters. But mainline flies them. Not regionals.
Delta seems to be leading the way with the 220 - that could have been a regional bird - but it's not.
And it shouldn’t. Fun fact, Swiss Airlines has 77W’s in their fleet, until April last year it was operated by its B scale “regional” airline. Without scope the majors will absolutely have the B scales flying heavy metal.