Originally Posted by
Hedley
For right now United needs Mesa to improve their reliability and keep the 70/76 seat rj’s moving. As long as United needs Mesa, they will pump money into them and they’ll be around. Dropping carriers that only operate 50 seat jets that are being phased out isn’t the problem that allowing a major disruption to the dual class bigger rj’s would be. A more realistic merger would be between CommutAir and Mesa. They could consolidate crews to fullly staff the 175’s while retiring the 145’s.
One thing is for sure. “United next” has the regional feed shrinking. Phasing out the single class 50 seaters and being replaced with 175s. Even then shirking the 175 flying and replacing it with maineline flying. It’s already being done now as we speak. 737 flying routes that use to be operated by regional jets.