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TransWorld
Would the contract allow new E175s with limited seating to the E170 level of 70 seats or so (similar to the GoJet CRJ550 limited to 50 seat)?
Yes, PDT has (according to my sources) 57 E145s. Interesting 40 of them are already over 20 years old, older than the average E145 Envoy flies. The rest are 16-18 years old.
SkyWest has been operating (subbing) 65 seat CRJ9s in PHX for a while now, I don’t see why anyone couldn’t do 65 seat 175s.
Republic still has a lot of 170s for United that could find their way to American ops on the east coast. Envoy’s strategy seems to be “collect the biggest hodge podge of 170s we can”.