Originally Posted by
CADR
I see your point, and the regional model is not sustainable at this point long term. What is likely to happen is the 50 seaters will go away and the airlines that operate them will close up shop. Your “big” regionals with the 175s (Republic / Skywest) will continue to operate and the legacy airlines (UAL, DL and AA) will eventually acquire A220s & 190 E2s and operate “regional” routes with them. Yes scope clause and all that, but most unions will agree to anything once the airlines throw money at them.
You’re probably right about the 50 seaters going away and the legacies being forced to take back a large portion of the regional feed with something like the A220’s. The next thing that will happen is there will be a thread on every board complaining about flying 4+ legs a day with short layovers. 🙄