The CRJ200's are either owned outright or leased with zero tail risk, meaning they can be parked or given back to the lessor with a 30 day notice and SKYW owes them nothing. The easiest aircraft to idle at the moment.

yep, im going to sit tight at my 135 while I can. maybe stuff will fix itself in the coming months.

and the easiest to spin back up if/when the demand is back...

Why wouldn’t the 700/900 or the 175’s be easy to spin back up?

OO has the 200’s down to a fine science... see how fast they went from one partner to another...

The hardest part is finding a carrier to place them in service for. UA/DL/AA/AS are not going to park much of their 65/70/76 seat fleets as those will be critical to them during the recovery when load factors will support a large regional jet but not a narrow-body.

The 50 seat fleets will also see large cuts initially, which is a problem for the 145 which has no common type with a larger jet, but for the 200, any 700/900 pilot can fly them with basic differences training, if not already qualified.

The 200s also have a very low acquisition cost, some parts and maintenance commonality with the 700/900, and can be brought on-line for cheap, and then put back into storage for not much loss if that need arises as well (possibly when fuel spikes in a year or two)

United is giving plenty of flying to XJT and the 145 (comparatively). So that assertion doesn’t match up.

At present time there’s no ability to even fill a 700/900 or 175 with pax. Before this whole virus thing United wanted to get rid of the 200’s at any cost.

Don’t forget that a 145 has an a row of 2 and 1 pax. Bet passengers would really want a single seat to themselves at this point

I’m not sure where you came from or your background but you are misinformed. You’re still on probation

No. Just no. You literally have no idea what you're talking about.

funniest statement of the evening. Bet you didn’t know AS is about to kick Skywest to the curb completely because of this recession and they aren’t happy with costs. Yeah. Didn’t think so.