I've been saying that for years. We need a small airplane before we get a bigger one. Smaller airplanes to provide incremental feed to fill a widebody year round.

That said, RJs are high CASM products, so maybe not TOO small.

USAir carried 175 pax in the 757 in 1999.
They carried 144 in the 737-400 (which is the same size as the 800).

Our 737s carry as many people as their 757s did. We cram a lot of people into these suckers, so a smaller airplane is appropriate to feed the “mainline” for lack of a better term.

i like the Breeze idea. I wonder if Neeleman still harbors a grudge from when Herb fired him?