Originally Posted by
Bucking Bar
Delta's still acquiring < 70 seaters under contract. Reference Republic's 70 seat flying announcement.
IMHO we will see a 100 seat platform configured with whatever seating configuration is allowed. The change can be made overnight with a log entry. The C Series and MRJ are lighter than the airplanes they replace, giving management more flexibility around archaic, poorly considered, scope language.
Don't completely count out the CRJ1000 either.
So are they going to configure these aircraft with 50 seats?
Our scope limit of 255 aircraft with 51-76 seats is about full.
I predict that the company will take delivery of at least 30 MD-90s currently under contract and possibly more to replace the 35 DC-9s and any 88s or 302s they might park.
The company also announced at this conference call that they will be parking 60 CRJs and 26 Saabs in the next 18 months, and I very much doubt they'll replace them with more 50 seaters. They've only got room for 20 additional 70-seat jets to replace the 86 regional aircraft they announced they are parking.