Originally Posted by
GA2Jets
Ehhhh hate to quibble too much about it but 3) is wrong...they did actually say those 50 seaters have a place in the network just fewer.
But yes, it is a challenging place for the owners to be in.
The bulk of the 50 seat flying will be the 550’s. The scary part about working for Air Wisconsin is that the flying that you guys do is where they are sending the 550. There will be a few single class 50 seaters running around to small Midwest towns, but I’d expect the more densely populated areas that you guys fly to increase in gauge and eliminate the 200’s. UAX is going to shrink significantly unless a modern 50 seat replacement that is scope compliant enters production soon. The best hope for Air Wisconsin is that GoJet gives up and you guys end up with the 550’s. That’s a risky gamble when both Mesa and SkyWest have 700 training programs in place and SkyWest is facing the same threat with the future of their 200’s. The record hiring at all of the legacies is going to hit the regionals really hard. I’m guessing that the smaller companies are either eliminated, or get merged into the bigger ones. Either way, the next few years are going to be a wild ride.