Originally Posted by
Ravenwing
Looking at the
www.planespotters.net website, SkyWest has 4 E175s parked, Republic has 13 E175s parked, and Mesa has 22 E175s parked. I don’t know who owns any of these planes. Mesa’s E175s are in United colors and United probably wants Mesa to eventually only operate E175s for them unless Mesa is really desperate. Republic makes the most sense.
I honestly believe the same thing about Mesa and fairly certain the 175s are owned by United. I think Mesa saying they will keep DFW and PHX bases is just a smoke screen and stop gap to keep everyone from bolting. Operationally those two don’t work for United flying. They just need time to get their CRJ pilots trained (or replaced).