Originally Posted by
xLuther
I fly on an E every month, never had an issue,
The simple fact is the CRJ is dead product, no new orders, they managed to sell 600 of the pieces of crap, on price. Passengers for the most part hate them.
in 5 -10 years as the leases end, all of them will be flying in 3rd countries, if at all.
oh it's 2012, 2007 is 5 years old, not "new"
I'm afraid you don't know much about the airline industry. The CRJ was phenomenally successful in the 90's, opening a new niche that allowed point to point jet service to secondary markets. It brought jet service to areas (particularly the USA) that did not like turboprops. Right plane for a time of cheap oil.
The market's merely moved changed and moved on, as it did from the DC-8, 727 etc. Though CRJ variants
continues to sell in small numbers.
As a result of AC bankruptcy in 2003, the original 50 seaters were transferred to Jazz (where they should have been in the 1st place). Ordering the 705 allowed them to keep fleet commonality and replace the thirsty BAE 146. Ordering the same a/c type at the mainline and regional carriers would have been "awkward" to say the least.
The Embraer "jungle jets" have not been without their problems, hence the E-180 nickname. They're also less fuel efficient than the Bombardier counterpart.