Since your purpose on this board seems to be to make excuses for Republic - USAIRway Express, do you think it was justified, taking a perfectly good plane with 90 passengers , and sacrifice it's function on a maintenance project. I and 89 other passengers bought tickets for a flight. We were not hitching a ride on a tow truck.

MY thought when they broke the second airplane , they should have tried to work with the people they had just screwed up.

What they did, pushed them up to CLT , where they became someone else's problem. Spineless, when you break something , and refuse to clean up your own mess.