Originally Posted by
PilotBases
Endeavor and every regional is shrinking. Every legacy is hiring 200/month. Yeah they will have the ability to backfill a good % of RJ flying. Look at the 220 right now and how many of those flights were RJs in 2017.
How much can legacies pay RJs to fly weight restricted CRJ200/E145s before it’s cheaper to do what UpsideDown said?
I have to laugh, for years it was:
-We want flow
-RJ flying should be mainline
-CRJ200 is terrible
Now there’s flow and move to shift flying to mainline and eventually park the deuce and it’s bad.
My take is that all that is not bad. It's all great. I just don't think the RJ's are going away anytime soon. And without scope relief, I'm sure there is a place for the Deuce in Delta's network for many years to come. Odds are Skywest or 9E will fly the last one to the desert.