Originally Posted by
climb150
United asked Expressjet to cut costs as it would be a pain to transfer aircraft and cancel contracts. If expressjet could cut costs then this wouldn't happen. C5 was already moving into ORD this year to cover expressjet flying. From what I can see expressjet was going to be shrunk to a one base airline (IAH) before covid. If expressjet did disappear Skywest could easily cover IAH with CRJ 200s they have spare from Delta.
Expressjet was dying before covid came along.
Many more regional airlines will fall in the coming months , unless 45 and his comrades decide to print more cash . Even with that , it’s all just temporary.
Flying 3or 4000 block hours a month won’t cut it for no body .