Originally Posted by
Tpinks
please post a source for that because there has never been a statement for 39 planes.
United ordered 20 +19 options. Those options can only be delivered if Skywest has their 19 CRJ7’s converted to CRJ5’s as those are the last CRJ7 aircraft in the UAX fleet. Mesa’s announcement for 20 175’s was them taking over the financing obligation from United for the 20 175’s United ordered.
you seem to be talking about scope and relationships between United and Skywest and United and Mesa etc. I'm not saying those airplanes can be flown under the current numbers for scope. I'm just saying that according to Embraer those orders became firm shortly after they were ordered as options. I found a report on Embraer website back in August that was dated sometime in July that showed all of the outstanding orders for e175. The report showed 0 options for United but it showed 39 firm orders owed to United.
I can no longer find this report but I did find a different report dated 31 Sep 2019 that showed 29 firm orders owed to United.