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Mesaba - 36
Compass - 36
Skywest - 21
Pinnacle - 16
Freedom - 14
Comair - ?
That already totals 123 and it isn't even counting the current Comair ones. Of course, the balance of the Pinnacle, Skywest, Freedom and Comair deliveries have yet to happen. Mesaba will have their 36 in a few months, I was under the impression Compass would as well. Aren't some of the Skywest planes in a 70 seat config? Seems to me that would be the solution for the overage... or just not take delivery of the overage and convert them to CRJ 700s instead.
When we first started receiving the 900 they were all configured to 70 but to my knowledge, and I've flown almost all of them, they are now all 76 seats.
I feel very curtain that SKW will retain their 4 deliveries for one may reason, we are DAL’s only West cost CR9 operator and they are planned for the SLC system. Also, all the other DAL/NWA operators are Midwest to East coast operators and that’s where most of the overlap will be felt.
Just my opinion and nothing more.