With our current mainline fleet, in the next 10 years there will be a giant hole in seat count between 70/76 seats at express and our 737 Max 8’s at 166 seats. We could go with the Max 7 but that is a lot of eggs in the 737 basket. With 50 seaters going away soon my guess is they want to unlock more 70/76 seaters at express. Apart from being more expensive, a good 319/737-700 replacement airplane is the 220-300 at 130 seats. If they get the 220-100 for scope relief, they may as well get the 220-300. I think we’re looking at used 787’s right now. About 50 more of those would dovetail nicely with the soon to be outgoing 76’s and 772’s. What will it be, the Max 7 or A-220 product?

-side note. I’m glad the Boeing/Embraer deal fell through. I thought for sure we were going to end up with a bunch of POS 190/195E2’s. Maybe we still will.