Originally Posted by FlyingKat

Yeah...that's never happened before

Originally Posted by 2fly1034

I was just in Indy for yearly ground School and yes the CRJ was a thing but it's not anymore. The reason behind it was the codeshares wanted us to be ready to take CRJ flying should it come but we had someone talk them down and say we can do whatever they need with 170s. So CRJ program is dead as of now

Originally Posted by sqwkvfr

Remember when Republic got that huge 55 Ejet deal from United back in 2014 or so? The day after that deal was announced Wayne Heller himself told my recurrent class that prior to this deal being announced, RAH had been in negotiations with Bombardier to purchase CRJ-900s in order to have enough aircraft to cover additional flying from UAL since all of the Ejet orders had been sold several years out. I think the deal coincided with an order cancelation from a European carrier and/or the opening of a second assembly line. I’m sure someone remembers the exact details better than me and can chime in.

My guess is that Republic management would be more than willing to take CRJs from other carriers with the understanding, or at least the hope, that when Ejets become available to take care of the flying, they can move those block hours to their preferred aircraft.

Originally Posted by KCaviator

You’re acting like there’s a huge backlog in EJet production, which there is not. SkyWest literally just announced an order for 9 additional 175s, and they’re taking delivery of some of those in the first half of 2019. That’s a damn quick turnaround. If we wanted to take delivery of EJets in the next few months, we could. But we don’t have any future flying, hence why we aren’t.

There’s a reason that 100 EJet order is scheduled for the second half of 2020....

Originally Posted by stabapch

YX isn’t in a position where they need CRJ’s like in the past.

Do you understand the reasoning for the Chapter 11?

But why not think logically when we have rumors.

Originally Posted by amcnd

I’m positive the 9 OO are taking were in the works 9+ months ago.. but i could be wrong..

I think RP is banking on contracts not being renewed.. and placing those 100 ERJ’s in 2020

Originally Posted by FlyingKat

Yeah Bedford has never taken a fleet type just to get the contract and convert the planes to 170s...never gonna happen...

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Originally Posted by stabapch

They didn’t take Q’s to get a contract with hopes of converting to EJets. They’ve had the Q’s.

Sorry, try again.

Originally Posted by stabapch

They didn’t take Q’s to get a contract with hopes of converting to EJets. They’ve had the Q’s.

Sorry, try again.