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09-09-2020, 08:45 AM

Claxstarr

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HOT Rumors from XJT

Personally, I don’t think CC wants 145s..
The financial deal and the long term UAX contract for 30 175’s though.....
That’s sounds like classic CC to me.

Rumors are fun.

09-09-2020, 09:01 AM

acecrackshot

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That's a Spicy Boi!

I grade this RUMINT F-6. Insufficient information to evaluate reliability. May or may not be reliable. Validity of the information cannot be determined.

09-09-2020, 09:40 AM

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XJT is in the last 20 days of wind down... this is historically “crazy rumor time”. Look at Compass they were convinced They would turn into Breeze...

09-09-2020, 10:20 AM

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175’s are entirely possible...145’s operated by actual OO? I doubt that muchly. But then again I didn’t think a virus would shut down the world this year.

09-09-2020, 10:47 AM

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175’s are entirely possible...145’s operated by actual OO? I doubt that muchly. But then again I didn’t think a virus would shut down the world this year.

Skywest doesn’t want 550s, which is just the CRJ type rating which about 2/3 of its pilots have (many of which are sitting around on VTO/CPTO/Reserve). Ignoring all its drawbacks and reasons for not wanting to operate them (over a dozen of which are our own aircraft), why would we want to acquire a new type and train people on it, when we keep declining interest in the 550 (which our guys are typed for) as we also keep transitioning guys to the 175? My money is on backroom deals to negotiate more 175 flying and financing 175s over the next few years. Why would we even think about aging 145s when we have a surplus of aging 200s that will do the same job?

09-09-2020, 11:00 AM

N1CEandEZ

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Spicy rumor... can we get Domino to give his valuable insight on this one?

09-09-2020, 11:01 AM

TheOtherGuy25

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Spicy rumor... can we get Domino to give his valuable insight on this one?

This is going to be good!

09-09-2020, 11:02 AM

Hedley

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Why would we even think about aging 145s when we have a surplus of aging 200s that will do the same job?

United has said since the beginning of this mess that 50 seat flying will be significantly reduced, and so far they have shown that they weren’t bluffing. All of the 50 seat jets are getting old and were approaching the end of their service. A few of the XJT planes will go to CommutAir, the rest will be probably turned into beer cans. The big question is what size the legacies will be coming out of this, and what kind of shakedown that triggers at the regional level.

09-09-2020, 11:12 AM

N1CEandEZ

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FWIW...INC could very well lease out the 145s and not operate them, as they are doing with the 550s. If this has any truth to it though I’m sure SGU would instead use this to secure more flying; 175 or 200.