Deltas new A220-100 will kill off Endeavor?
 

What you guys think? A220 coming for delta. Is this the beginning of killing off the regionals? Hmmmm

Uh no. Overall downsizing maybe, but not death. Especially for 9E. 9E will grow. Maybe Republic will lose Delta tho.

Why do you say 9e will grow and yx will loose Delta?

No.
Filler.

Yea and maybe mainline will staple us all to the bottom of their list. Pilots are worse than school girls with the rumors and speculation. Nobody at our level has any clue what’s going to happen.

Ultimately the A220 and E-2 series are going to be bought because the can service a small niche more efficiently than anything else can serve that niche. Unless there is another big recession that forces mainline pilots unions to yield up scope, these aircraft, at least those over 76 pax, will be flown at mainline. To the extent that these aircraft can increase the flying done by the public, we all benefit, because they'll become the entry level mainline equipment that will be filled - at least at the FO level - by new hires. There will still be communities where smaller jets - even 50 seaters - can still be economically competitive but increasing salaries and bonuses (and training costs) will decrease the current advantage regional's have in crew costs.

Basically, it isn't the A220 or E-2s, it will be the economics that determine the fate of the regional's.

For the same reason you speculate the A220 is killing Endeavor. I felt like spouting some random BS. 9E is growing though but YX won't lose Delta. Just poking the bear.

Because 9e guys are starting to feel special. They’ve apparently forgotten about Comair and ASA.

According to DAL, the Bombardier C was to be replacing larger than 50 seat RJs, so those Larger RJs could be replacing 50 seat RJs, thus upgauging the fleet.

It does, however, have a VERY long range, so it could do many flights that were impossible on any RJ (or MD-88/MD-90/B-717), and even some small Airbuses and the Boeing 737, I believe. An example that Bombardier used, was a typical load nonstop from London City airport to Montreal using the smaller CS-100

I second that motion. That's why I just do my 8 and hit the gate.

This is an entirely different industry than when what happened to Comair and ASA happened. EDV became a wholly owned during the first time that it actually became good to be one. The other wholly owned carriers were facing similar hardships before the change but were fortunate to hang around long enough for it to happen.

According to whom? You? Lmao!! Pilots are so stupid.

You have a point. WO versus non-WO is personal preference only, not some kind of truth. While EDV has high pay and good QOL, the whipsawed AA WOs are some of the lowest paying and lowest QOL jobs in the industry now, certainly worse than Republic.

I think history has taught us that no one is safe from bankruptcy or shutdown. But the large amount of investment placed into the WOs in recent years versus non-WOs is a factor to consider. As is flow...

I doubt the A220 kills off any RJ's. Airplanes are most economical used to their maximum potential. It won't be long before the A220 is utilized on long thin routes that RJ's can't make. If anything, the A220 is a bigger threat to the LCC's.

The LCCs fly trunk routes, not long and thin routes.

What’s a trunk route

High demand, high density. Basically a route with a lot of people wanting to go between the same cities.

2012?
Wasnt even a year of separation.
Hopium.

That's not completely the case, they fly all different routes.

How will the current and future MD88/90 retirements play into this A220 equation?

They don’t, Delta is replacing the MD’s with 737-900’s and A321’s. They have enough on order to replace the MD’s and grow significantly.

They are also replacing some of the 757-200's with them (and saving a few bucks an hour pay rates at the same time.)

The 757 retirements were done a year ago. The current 757 fleet is planned to remain static for several years.

Most of their routes wouldn't be profitable with the A220. Such as the evening flights from the east cost to Vegas. MCO or FLL for the vacation / cruises. Central or South America. There's a reason they put 180+ seats on a A320 or 220+ seats on a A321. They have no problem filling them.

looks like the routes announced are mostly current -900 routes flown by Endeavor and SkyWest as well as mainline with 717s and a319s

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Most of the NYC routes are YX routes, for what its worth.

Endeavor does the most flying for Delta out of LGA. More than Delta. But JFK-DFW and such are Endeavor as well. However, LGA-DFW has been YX lately as I've seen, but I wouldn't call the generalization as "most" in your post as an accurate assessment.