Originally Posted by
iahflyr
I agree. United leadership wanted to raise the MTOW of the CRJ-550 by 4,000lbs, but the union kneecapped that plan.
I don’t want more 76 seaters. I don’t want 50 seaters flying routes like EWR-ATL as they were in 2010.
I do want premium configured 50 seaters to fly from United hubs to these small airports (which cannot support mainline flights) that are served by our competitors. Without that, these passengers will fly our competitors instead.
United leadership has a contractually compliant level to pull to add more large RJs. They have continued to choose not to. Poor union leadership tried to give away scope and the United pilot group stopped them.
During UALs contract negotiations and TUMI voting, Mitsubishi was looking at restarting the CRJ 550 line. Shortly after TA 2.0 passed, Mitsubishi scrapped those plans.