Originally Posted by BeatNavy

JetBlue management has said, at least to my class in indoc, that there are no regional partners because they like to control the brand and product. That could obviously change, but the chaos and implosion that would cause with the airline would likely not be worth it. Especially since regional pilots cost more and more these days. I think many of us would bail if scope was sold like that, but more importantly I don't think any contract would make it to the pilot group that allowed for that to happen.

Now this is all a hypothetical, but if e175s came on property and were the same rates as the e190, I'd be ok with that, as I'm not a bigger is better kind of guy. Pilots don't buy airplanes, BOD/c level execs do. If they paid me appropriately to fly them, I don't really care what I fly. I don't think that will happen though. I could maybe see the E175 e2 if we got e190/195 e2s, as the e175-e2 can hold 88 seats at 31" pitch. That'd give us a little more versatility in the 80-130 seat range if we had multiple aircraft sizes, IF the commonality and reduced capacity from the 190/195 was worth the slightly reduced operating cost. But I don't know the RASM/CASM/acquisition/operating costs of any of those planes, am not privy to nor care enough to make a net present value analysis of such an acquisition. I just wiggle sticks and push buttons. And I'd rather wiggle a C series sidestick anyway, as I believe BBD>EMB.