Originally Posted by
KBMIFlyer
Regional Jets are not going away. Americans regional jet partners are buying new CRJ900s and ERJ 175s. What will be going away are the 50 seat ERJ145s. These are just getting too expensive to run with the increased cost of pilots and fuel and most are 20 years old or more. Look for cities that are primarily ERJ145s destinations to be axed next. There are a bunch of these across the PHL, CLT, ORD, and DFW hubs
Where would American be getting CRJ’s from? CRJ’s are no longer being produced and its supposed successor aircraft, the Mitsubishi SpaceJet, looks like it’s probably never going to be produced due to heavy developmental delays and economic hardship caused by COVID. If cities served by ERJ-145s are going to be axed, then American’s network looks like it’s going to shrink significantly, especially as far as DFW and ORD go. What’s going to happen to an airport like ABI, which only sees ERJ-145 service and is its area’s only connection to major air service since both DFW and DAL are 3+ hours away and no other airports with even a decent amount of outside service are even further away?