Originally Posted by quagmeyer
]Bottom line though, the Management of US airlines have become transfixed with outsourcing of jobs and routes to the Replacement Jets (RJ's) and it must stop. JFK is an International airport meant for International airplanes not RJ'S.
That's an interesting observation. Given that the CRJ700/900 series involved in this incident is as long as or longer than the A318/319 and the B737-200/300/400/500/600/700 and only 1.4m shorter than the B717 - can I presume that you would also ban those types from JFK or is it just your politics that's showing? Prejudice should not play any role in accident avoidance/prevention.
Preliminary data would seem to indicate that the ONLY passenger airliner that would NOT have cleared the RJ in this incident happens to be the A380. That would appear to indicate that the A380 is "too big" as opposed to the CRJ being "too small".