Originally Posted by EDVPLT

Republic has about 12 of the Compass birds that never got conformed and Skywest has 3 that never got conformed. In addition I believe 6 republic 170s come off contract in 2020 so it seems it would be smart to not conform and spend the money on these airplanes and just remove 6 seats from 6 of republics 175s which would bring them down to about 20 76 seaters and only a need to find 15 more.