Regionals will have 100% utilization in 2025:
 

At least with AA, they are dropping Air Whiskey flying starting April, and permanently parked 43 E145s in Q4. 100% utilization of a reduced fleet size is still fewer seats.

They ordered 90 175s, pulled CRJ7s out of the desert and bought 15 CRJ9s. That more than makes up for parked 50 seaters and provides more two cabin jets to capture premium revenue. Eventually it's 40% growth.

the article is talking about 2025. How many of those 90 E175s will be delivered this year? Long term, sure, there will be a net increase of seats.

The E175 order was announced at the same time they said they’d be permanently parking all 50 seaters (E145s)….by 2030. Looks like they got a head start by parking 43 of them already..

Primarily because PSA is fully staffed and could handle extra airframes. Those CRJs alone offset the 145s which aren't being 'parked' they are just no longer coming out of the desert. So the 175s are all gravy. Embraer being much better than Boeing at this point could probably deliver most of them in a year but I think it will take two. That's the 40% increase.

Word games...

100% full utilization.... of in use aircraft.

Back to pre Covid levels is still short as the parking began well before covid.


Most regionals still have plenty of aircraft pickled and parked. BY md 2023 over 500 regional jets from across the industry were parked. By September 2024 there were still 370 Regional aircraft in storage. We haven't pulled 370 that many back by a long shot in less than 4 months.