United Airlines has invested in first-class regional jets—but they're not for the customer
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The major airlines and their pilots have negotiated for years how many aircraft may be operated by so-called “regional” airlines. It matters greatly to the pilots unions, since starting salaries at the regional airlinesas low as $30,000, less than half of typical pay at the Majors. Unsurprisingly, airline management would like regional airlines to fly more and larger jets. The pilots would like to see all but the smallest aircraft flown by the better-paid mainline pilots.
In a similar game, American purchased a special variant of the common 50-seat Embraer regional jet to skirt scope clauses in the late 1990s. With only 37 seats, the Embraer 135 allowed American to increase the number of aircraft that could be subcontracted to its regional partner. Like most shortened aircraft variants, this model had higher costs per seat-mile than the more common 50-seater and American retired them early, though they are still in use at some other airlines.
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