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Originally Posted by Ozflyer
When does commutair start getting their planes to expand it to 60 as they’re saying?
are they gonna be brand new EMB145s?
We've been getting airplanes steadily since I came here almost 18 months ago. I think we're up 14 or so in that time and around 40 right now. But come to think of it I haven't seen any new arrivals here in the last few months, and this may be related to United's recent plan to reshuffle / consolidate their lift and possibly merge CommutAir and ExpressJet at some point in the future now that the 175s have been taken from ExpressJet.
New 145s is an oxymoron, as no new 145s have been made in years. Any airplanes we get will have to come from another carrier. That said, United has committed to refurbish / update both paint and interiors of the entire UAX fleet so our airplanes won't look as dated as they do right now. We have about five repainted aircraft in our fleet at the moment. Boeing / Embraer is also reportedly considering the production of a new 50 seater but I would plan to be long gone from the regionals before we would see it at CommutAir.