60 new E175 jets on the way for Alaska
 

Saw this, 30 on order and 30 options. Brad said "Portland will be seeing a lot of the 175" lets hope some of those are on new routes. http://www.seattletimes.com/business...regional-jets/

Might be a 734 replacement too... ;)

so AS is buying them outright and not using Skywest? At least thats how I read it. Assuming this will phase out most of the Q400s and all of the CRJ 7s there isnt much of a net increase in a/c. Would be nice to see these things replace the Q400s in Alaska :)

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CRJ replacements are on order already for operation by oo. This should end up as a net positive,

It does read like Alaska Air Group is buying them. That doesn't mean AS will operate them; I think that the regional jets operated by regional airlines are sometimes owned or leased by the regionals and sometimes owned or leased by the marketing carrier. And, of course, it's possible that QX will be operating some of them. A fleet that large would easily be large enough for it to make sense, unlike the much-smaller fleet of CR7s that Alaska Air Group moved from QX to Skywest in the name of fleet commonality.

I also assume that this is part of Tilden's stated plan to move towards retiring the Q400s, which makes it even more likely that QX will operate some or all of these planes.

As I understand it AS has ordered 23 E175's for use by Skywest, which will replace all CRJ's and add to the Skywest/Alaska fleet. In addition AS ordered 30 more E175's with option for 30 additional. All of those will go to QX and replace most, but not all of the Q400's. This will give a net increase to QX. As best I can tell the Q's will operate routes in the 400 miles and less area. My guess is QX wil replace some west coast flying with the E175's and free up some AS 737's.

Nothing is official I don't think. Though I don't doubt this is accurate.
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I also think some West Coast flying out of SEA currently done with 734s (and other 737s) will be replaced with E175s, if AS is going to be operating over almost 100 of them. It's a reasonable way to respond to AA and DL adding a ton of capacity to SEA/PDX-Greater LA/Bay Area.

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Agreed. There may be an "understanding" but no ink has been signed.

Might happen Wednesday...

No link to make it "official" but the BoD has approved Horizon Air to bring 30 regional jets onto the property. Manufacturer and type to be determined shortly (here's hoping they're E175s!).

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You're word is good enough!

Cool ;)

I hope they're E175s! They are the one regional aircraft that I truly don't mind flying on!

I'm hoping it's the Bombardiers instead; they seem to be excellent from a passenger experience perspective.

CRJ-900s? Are you high?

dickerso, are you referring to the still-almost-fictitious C-Series? Who knows what the passenger experience will be? And the reliability? I'll take the E-jets, which are actually in service and have been for more than a decade. And 2x3 beats 3x3 seating, but 2x2 is even better from a passenger perspective.

If you're referring to the CRJ-900, I'm with 3Cforme.