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A220 would have been a good plane for LGB. Quiet, more NIMBY friendly, less capacity, etc. Maybe Breeze will go to LGB and give them a try there. But for B6 I don’t see LAX getting a 220 base quite yet. I’d guess BOS & JFK 190 would be replaced first. Who knows tho, the Rona is causing a lot of changes. I’d bet one day the 220 will have a west coast base. I just think LAX base, even at 70 flights a day if it gets there in 2025, will still be too small to justify 2 crew bases there.
I wasn't here then, but it's my understanding that we had the E190 routing through the west coast without having a 190 West Coast base and it was the 190's reliability or lack thereof that killed that operation. The same strategy may be done with the A220, it has transcon range and is also comfortable doing relatively short hops.