I'm sorry I thought all the <50 seaters were leaving per United?

 

United is going all E-Jets and I don't think the United/SkyWest contract is going anywhere.
Thanks for the help!

 

Solo yet?
Things will look vastly different by the time you join the regionals. I'd focus more on your flight training vs. how long to hold a line in Denver right now.

 

No, they aren't leaving. United did say that they wanted to shrink 50 seat fleet in half, but then they hired this guy from AA named Kirby who likes regionals and i haven't heard much more about 50 seat planes going away. 50 seat fleet is getting shifted around. Air Wisconsin (who has 65 CRJ200s all in AA colors) just signed a contract with United for 50 planes plus 15 options (so basically they will repaint those planes into UA colors). Eventually, one day, all the E145s and CRJ200s will be too old to keep flying, and they won't be built anymore so who knows what the regional landscape will look like when those planes start getting mothballed.

Now step away from the keyboard and focus on flying. In two years, start looking at this section of the forum again and you'll see that nothing looks the same.

 

There is something called a scope clause, and almost every major airline has one except for Alaska.

United's scope clause says that the regional partners can fly:
50 seaters, total numbers up to 90% the number of single aisle aircraft in the fleet
70 seaters: up to 255 (combined 70/76 seaters)
76 seaters: up to 153


Since UA will max out the 76 seaters at 153, they can max out the 70 seaters at 102 (153 plus 102 = 255)

Between GoJet, Mesa, and SkyWest, there are 77 CRJ700s being operated for United. Republic operates 38 E170s. Once all the E175 deliveries have been made for Mesa, Republic, and SkyWest (153 combined), 13 CRJ700s will have to leave. There will still be a need for CRJ700s in the near future for certain airports (MMH, ASE, SUN, JAC, EGE, etc).


Also, most major airlines do not like to give all of their regional flying to just one regional partner. This is akin to putting all of your eggs in one basket. Imagine if all United Express flying was done by one regional, lets make up a name and call them United Express. Imagine that the pilots of this airline decide to go on strike. Now, United doesn't have any regional feed. If you spread it out between SkyWest, Mesa, GoJet, Republic, Air Wisconsin, Expressjet, and Commutair, and one of them goes on strike then its not so bad. Also, the different airlines can bid against each other to win the contract. Lowest bidder wins, keeping costs low.

 

Is he not even done with his training?

If you're still in basic flight training I'd just get off these. You have such a long road it will be a completely different ballgame when you get in. Don't worry about airlines.......

 

It was a snapchat. Should've screen shotted it. Not a hoax.

Probably just a MTX issue that we are working on for them.

 

ORD folks

I have a crash pad on the Cumberland stop. How much is blue line and what's the best option? Pay as I go or get a pass? And how much is that?

Thanks

 

Buy a pass, register the card and give the number to the admin. Fare will be 2.25 with that discount


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Where do these 13 x 700's go? Overseas or?