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Does this addition of 20 frames mean that 20 other 76 seat aircraft will have to come off to meet scope?

I’ve been checking this thread every hour in hopes for some Kool-Aid. Where you at Jim Jones?

This leaves 2 possible operators who fly 76 seat feed with non-AA owned planes.

Doesn't AA's scope clause allow larger aircraft to be flown with a 65 or less seat configuration to fit into the "small regional jet" group? That being said, wouldn't it make the most sense to just reconfigure some old 700's or even have skw fly the 175 with less seats?

Yes; and the SkyWest 700s are all being converted to 65 seats already, if they haven’t been converted yet.

Bringing the 175 down to 65 seats maybe doesn’t make that much sense, since it’s already an 88 seat aircraft that was brought down to 76 (SkyWest has some configured at 70 seats for Delta, and Expressjet 70 seats for United Express).

Yea, bringing the 175 down to 65 seats would render the airplane pretty much useless.

Certainly not useless. But loses much of the economic advantage it was designed for.

I have met 1 Skywest pilot in my class of 59 at AA, he had military experience. Didn’t poll the entire class, but every non wo regional pilot was also military.

20 AA LRJs at Skywest does mean 20 less at Envoy with the scope agreement and fleet plan the way it is right now. No debating that.