CEO's care only about the bottom line.
You really believe they care that a passenger thinks they are on a mainline airplane? Crap half of them probably don't even know the difference.

Passengers don't listen to PA announcements! Blah, blah, blah.

That's not true. Delta is always telling us they want their passengers to have a "seamless flying experience".

I always laughed at that. They park 3-4 rjs to a gate. Jfk (enough said) dtw, 30 minutes to get a gate and be the fourth a/c at that gate. Pretty seemless.

Not to mention that if you're traveling on any CRJ series aircraft you're permitted to gate check your bag. But if it's any other aircraft(mainline or regional) you cannot gate check it.

So when you ride from DLH to MSP on a CRJ200, Delta gate checks your bag. Then as you roll your bag down the jetway to hop on an A319 for your MSP-ATL flight you leave your bag in the jetway. The agent, who is frantic about closing the door 10 minutes early doesn't bother to find out whose bag it is, & tags it to stop in ATL. Now you're deplaning in ATL to make your 28 minute connection to EYW and you wait on the jetway for your bag. Then you're informed that bags can not be gate checked on mainline aircraft, & it can be picked up at baggage claim. Looks like you'll be missing your EYW flight.(True story. Happened to a passenger on my flight)

What a seamless travel experience!! Go Delta!!! :rolleyes:

Ok but other than stating what I said is false, you haven't mentioned why it is?:rolleyes:

That's actually a big part of why DAL likes the 175s and why the pax think they're on mainline. The 175s don't pink tag... either it fits in the overhead, or it gets checked to baggage claim.

Delta might like E175s but ordered 40 CRJs with option for 30 more. Money talks, they were able to get a better deal and way to unload the CRJ200s so they went with CRJs, if they loved the Ejets so much they would have just gotten Ejets. It's all based on economics, there are what 130 to 150 Ejets running around to hundreds of CRJ 7 and 9s. Fuel prices just increased, the CRJ just widened it's margin over the Ejets. Mainline would love to put passages on an airplane that is just like a mainline airplane by the looks, feel and operation but the bottom line is what counts the most and thus why they pick the CRJ. There is more than looking like a mainline aircraft when the airlines pick an airframe.

Do E-Jets burn more than the 9 hundo?

That is what I have seen while sitting in the JS and what most guys around here say, I haven't flown both so can't give you a 100% certain answer. Looking at some if the performance numbers the manufacturers put out it also seems the EJets burn more fuel. Need a little more energy to push that wall with the double bouble fuselage.