Originally Posted by
Riddler
Something tells me that CAL will try even harder to park all its 737-500s and replace them with E190s or CRJ900s.
There is no problem in replacing the 735s with E190s or CRJ1000s, just that they should be operated by mainline. Pure and simple.
It seems to me that most airlines are waking up and realizing it is better to operate larger mainline aircraft 1 or 2 times a day to a small destination than 10 CRJs, and after the whole Republic/Midwest/Frontier fiasco airlines are waking up and realizing they are funding their own enemies by creating these mega regionals; and that in the future we will see a reduction in regional flying and an increase in mainline in the years to come, but I agree that the new combined MEC should fight for at least keeping COs scope.