Originally Posted by
3 green
I think the 717A's are just short staffed like most of the other categories. While the Company put UNA's on the 717B since it's the lowest paid aircraft. At least that is my guess. The 717 seems like a dead category and I predict it wont last too much longer..The 717 cannot even supplement the very short staffed 737 or 320 because it only holds 110 paxs.
I don't necessarily disagree, but they just announced pulling more out of the desert to bring us up to 63 online. They're supposedly going to put more 717As on the next AE. Also hearing that the retirement may have been pushed out to 2026 now (which may fall into your definition of "too much longer"), with a possibility of pulling the rest out of storage. I'm guessing pulling the rest out of storage has something to do with whether they get the RJs or not. It appears to be like the DC-9 that lasted way longer than planned. My bidding plan counts on the 717 going away in DTW in the next year or so, so I'm not exactly holding out hope it lasts a long time here lol.