Originally Posted by ZapBrannigan

220 is a great airplane and comparable to the Max-7 in range and payload. But I don't think we should discount the E190 E2.

We would be the first US carrier to operate it. The legacies scope language prevent it from being outsourced to the regionals and for whatever the reason don't want to operate them at the mainline.

But even without transcon range it's a heck of a nice platform and very customer friendly. I agree that before we venture into more than a handful
of heavies, we need a ~100 seat airplane to go into the myriad of small cities we don't already serve and would NEED to serve to provide incremental feed to the heavy during the slow season. Knoxville, Greensboro, Roanoke, Burlington, Syracuse... you name it. There's opportunity in them thar hills!