Originally Posted by
tonsterboy5
everyone has the staffing now to cover their flying. Second thing is better product. Skywest has a different product, not better. Up until very recently United was using 50 seat jets like no tomorrow. In a few months they will want more 50 seaters when they have to park most of your large RJs due to scope.
Picking on Skypest is fun but not particularly helpful. The fact is (as you mentioned) United was planning almost 200 50 seaters based East of the Mississippi River at the beginning of the year. The only question was finding enough crews to fly them. Now Kirby says no 50 seaters will survive COVID-19. Logic seems to dictate the truth will be somewhere in the middle. But until we know it is hard to guess at the future of EV, C5 or ZW.