Originally Posted by
Foxcow
The CRJ-900 may be operated by regional carriers but in my opinion, it is not a regional airplane.
The CRJ-900 that I fly is owned and operated by a regional airline, too. The airline's region just happens to be USA, Europe, and Africa.
I suspect we'd have to first define "regional". SkyWest, for example, flies coast to coast in the USA, and Mexico to Canada. I wouldn't call that "regional". They are a contract airline. ASA, on the other hand, is both regional and contract.
Any airplane that can't fly coast to coast, and over over the big ponds, to me is "regional". The Fokker is regional. A much smaller Gulfstream 550, not so much ;-)