Originally Posted by
Scott34567
AA's scope clause will prevent any regional from feeding the mainline with more than a 50 seat airplane. The one exception being the ATR, under the Executive Airlines certificate, with 64-66 seats.
So any regional that would fly under the connection banner would be barred from operating anything with more than 50 seats.
Don't they have the 700s in ORD, though??? Are they 50 seat config with 1st class or what?
There would really be no point for RAH to buyout Eagle. The only reason I would've thought RAH would ever buyout Eagle would be to park a bunch of the 135/145s, and run the more-efficient 170s on the longer-range routes out of ORD & DFW. That won't happen, though, because of AAs aforementioned scope...which I actually agree with. The 170/175 and 900 should be mainline planes...they're practically the size of a DC9. And probably more spacious.