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In DEN or COS the only west coast airport you'll see is LAX on a turn from SGU or PRC. One trip I flew had an odd mixed partner thing with an AA leg LAX-DEN but that just skipped a step. If you want to be on the coast the CRJ is the wrong airplane. Bases are small and not growing. Whether it will disappear completely is up to the mainline partners. CRJ flying in general is not getting any better and new destinations are mostly EAS. No CRJ DMA in DEN.
Feel free to pm me with questions. DEN based on the CRJ. Best of luck in training, study hard and don't fall behind.
This is not true for Denver. There are still trips that go through west coast cities on the CRJ. I am a DEN CA on the CRJ and had a trip with a PSP and SBP overnight with stops through SFO just 2 months ago. If you look at the February scheduling report for Denver CRJ we have trips that go through SEA, PDX, ACV, LAX, SFO, SBP, BUR, SNA, and SMF. I will admit though that the CRJ trips are not getting any better for the most part, passengers like the ERJ more so the more popular destinations will continue to go mostly to the ERJ.
Denver DMA went away on the CRJ after February of 2025 and is entirely gone on the CRJ on the United side (although there are rumors they may use it again some in the summer when the winds start to pick up). The only 2 CRJ DMA bases left are ORD and DFW and those are on the American side. Delta switched over to the ERJ for the winter, but if they decided to go back to the CRJ, LAX may come back.
United will be using the 200’s for a long time. They make a ton of money and there are rumors of a 30 seat 2 class configuration coming to them. It looks like they will also be converting all of the United 700’s to 550’s. They are already taking over a lot of routes in Denver as well. The CRJ will not be going away anytime soon.