Originally Posted by
fasteddie800
Yeah. I'd love to see ERJs / CRJs flown at mainline. And maybe it'll happen someday.
Before that happens though, the mainline carriers will shuffle airplanes from one regional operator to another. They'll keep doing that as long as they can. In the process, some regionals will shrink, some will go under. Some fleets will go away (50-seaters, etc).
From a business perspective though, it pays for UA to keep as much flying at the regional level as they can, for as long as they can, until the financials no longer pencil-out.
30+ years of regional jet flying has proven that mainline carriers do not want to dabble with regional jets. The less than 100 seat market will vanish before mainline carriers take that stuff on themselves. This is not a theory,as economics and the US airline business model have proven it so.