Originally Posted by
brockenspectre
SkyWest doesn't want to mess with the 550 for a myriad of reasons, so that is a pointless argument. So lets say you guys do add another type...who exactly you going to fly those for?
There are lots and lots of possibilities. The most obvious is that we continue to fly a combo of 200s and 550s for UA. Could add 900s for the right price, could fly 7 or 900s for AA, seems like they have no problem farming out flying. Could do a mix of any of that. Could fly 200s to smaller markets for a while.
Anyone in the regional industry should know that everything changes and nothing is guaranteed. Compass had fancy 175s and multiple contracts. Did that save them? Expressjet had 175s shortly before COVID, did that save them?
Maybe it'll be bad, maybe it won't. Doomsday is just as founded in guesses as anything else.