Originally Posted by
Iceberg
As far as 76 seaters, they had about 56 until 16 went to ASA. Then the BK deal took them from 40 to 81. The current number they have is due to frames coming over (and back) from ASA/ExpressJet. They’ll soon add more from the current DCI consolidation. To pin all of 9E’s shrinkage/growth on that scope change ignores the changes throughout the DCI fleet.
Exactly, you can’t just look at one DCI carrier and draw any conclusions. For example, the number of 76-seaters (and 50-seaters) at ASA/XJT is now zero.