At this point I highly doubt a frontline employee will buy more United Express as a good thing. The utter incompetence of the operation for many years has caused dismay far beyond the flight deck.

First thing he went for during the AA bankruptcy was 88 seat scope. Coincidently that's probably pretty close to what the cut-down CS100 would be

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.blo...n-united-talks

CLE was always going to close. It makes zero sense as a base, ala MEM and DAL post NWA merger.

GUM closing? I don't see that happening. We're the only game for a lot of that island flying and the gov't contracts are too lucrative.

He's a smooth talker. What he says makes sense. What doesn't make sense is why a regional has to fly the airplane. That is the million dollar question.

Very soon, to be able to attract more pilot applications, some HR department is going to come up with the idea that they can attract more/better pilot applicants if the jobs were at the mothership than at a subcontractor. One of the majors will do it first. The rest will fall in line to compete.

The race to bring jobs to the mainline started several years ago when all the majors raised new hire pay from 23/hr to 60/hr, and the worse RJ operators started paying signing bonus's to new hires. The next lap around the circuit was giving a "fast track" to a mainline job when you get hired at certain regionals. The next will probably be getting a "seniority number" at mainline when you get hired by a regional. But eventually someone is going to just start bringing 70+ seaters to mainline.

It is going to happen. The market will force them to do it.

Then we'd be increasing staffing and block hours there instead of displacing and pulling aircraft out of there like we are now, right?

I've flown into Guam many times over the last couple years. We aren't the only game in town. There are a lot of airlines there. Not sure if they're doing island flying though.

Today UAL only had 13 flights operate out of Guam. Only 10 of those flights were 737 Guam trips.

I've been singing this song since Kirby joined us and shockingly it's true. The dude loves RJ's and Codesharing. Look for more of the same in the weeks to come and no new order to replace the 737-700's except for possible more commuter crap.

Dang I hate being correct sometimes !!

You have been saying that. the problem is the pilots won't give him more RJs. I don't think he likes 50 seat jets either. So he can talk all he wants he's not going to get scope relief so all he can do is grow mainline. Which is what Iv been saying......

I posted the same article about a 'cut-down' CS100 a few days back in a nearby thread, then came upon this today.

https://www.flightglobal.com/news/ar...-cs100-437635/

The more recent article makes a lot more sense than the one suggesting BBD was willing to sell UAL custom chopped CS100s. I see the standard Wikipedia CS100 config has 8F and 110Y seats. Well, our UAX 175s have a dozen F seats (and interestingly so do our current -700s, the 319s have just 8). So, it was entirely plausible that BBD was going to add more FC seats (12-16 total I imagine) and bring the total seat count down to make it a true 100 seater thus reducing the FA contingent to two.

If SK really wants more 76 seat RJs, he already has the means to get them and I'm not buying the line he's used previously saying 'we don't see how to make the economics work for 100 seat jets'. We could run CS100s or 190/195 E2s from ORD to DFW or EWR to ATL instead of RJs and they would do great against AA/DAL mainline jets... because from a passenger perspective they essentially ARE mainline jets. I'm not sure what pax will ultimately think of the E2, but everything I've read suggests the C series is now hands down the best NB passenger experience out there. That is probably why Boeing is deploying its legal department to try and beat it back (duh, cheaper than designing a clean sheet aircraft!).

Anyways, SK would be wasting his time asking for scope concessions. A better use of his time if he really wants more RJs would be to negotiate a great deal for NSNB jets.

The CS 100 is to heavy for express no matter how many seats it has in it.

But you are correct the CS will stand toe to toe with any mainline aircraft. If you can stand up straight, its quiet, comfortable and bring on a carry on people will consider it mainline.