WiFi or not , people will still cringe at the 145 or 200. Just face the facts, they are old,outdated products that served well during their prime , but its time for them to go away and restructure all of this “ regional flying “” like Ord-Hpn back in house . In the end it will create more mainline jobs for us all shortly down the road.

Kirby knows that after six months of panic eating non-stop and using up the world's supply of toilet paper, no proper 800 lb American will fit in that tube of sardines anymore.

They didn't go from "50 seats are so cool we are going to do an expensive cabin refresh" to "oh we need to get rid of these because of customer experience" in month. It's all about money, capacity and demand.

Having to walk on the ramp won't go away. Dulles doesn't have the capacity to handle that many RJs at jet bridges. Maybe if they built a new terminal, but that will take awhile. Plus we fly into a lot of airport that don't have them to begin with and would easily bankrupt them if they were to build them.

I think some that what Kirby was trying to say is that there isn’t going to be as many rj’s. I think they anticipate fewer flights on bigger planes to be the new normal coming out of this.

OO was working on a satellite based wifi for the 200’s. So it wasn’t just for the E145’s.. But its all a moot point now...

The “walking outside on a noisy ramp” isn’t the airplane’s fault, it’s that way because United went the cheapo route on the south side of the B terminal. You make that same walk whether you’re on a 145, 175, or CRJ if that’s where your gate it. And if you’re anywhere else, you use a jetbridge like every other airplane!

Point 5, UND is in the business of selling pilot certificates and diplomas, of course they’re predicting full recovery by fall.

Lol @ United forking out money on WiFi on our lovely old planes and those griping about walking on the ramp.

#priorities

What do you think people would hate more? A 50 seat RJ, or no service?