There truly is no excuse to put passengers on a jet with such small seats as the CJ 200 for more than an hour flight.
In addition to this, the poor on time performance and completion statistics of the regionals, are not used by the DOT in the on time performance rating of US Airways.
Case in point; observe the link I provided for PHL, flight numbers for US Airways 3000 and above are regional, many running late, this is not reflected by DOT for the mainline. This is a typical.
http://www.phl.org/flight_departures.asp