Originally Posted by iahflyr

Yes, United has lost service to lots of small airports as a result of the CRJ-200’s being retired. Some airports have transitioned to CRJ-550 and/or ERJ-175, but more often than not the city is removed from the United system. The CRJ-550 is unnecessarily kneecapped by a MTOW limit. The ERJ-175 is scoped out, so they tend to be deployed on markets that need 76 seats rather than markets that supported multiple 50 seat flights a day and could still be supported by 1-2 76 seat flights a day. Instead those markets are no longer served.

Any city that United does not fly to, but our competitions do, means many passengers who will not be flying on United mainline metal when they connect in a hub to go to their final destination.

That means less mainline airplanes, less pilot jobs, less seniority progression, less captain seats, less revenue, less profit sharing… you get the picture.