767300ER: One use of the "50-seat" CRJ is to order a big batch with only 44 seats, thereby sneaking around/under the scope clause. Some companies would take out twenty seats if they could somehow earn a profit.
It is also interesting to observe how an airline uses a 50 or 44-seat CRJ to compete with airlines which fly jets with about 100-145 seats. It might be just a strange coincidence that an airline tries to give numerous "mainline" routes to a regional partner just before that partner's stock is offered to the "street" in its first IPO........
If a plane only has 50 seats, then how can an airline offer more seats and potentially increase revenue, if these flights only operate three times per day? There must be a very popular marketing textbook from the 1950s which is still worshiped in the "permafrost" latitudes of the upper midwest.
As for airline furloughs, the more you have, then the more hostages exist on the bargaining table, especially when concessions are the hot topic. On second thought, as for the value of hostages, maybe not: many of your American "brothers" were born into the upper Hindu castes and can only look down upon those from TWA who were born into the "untouchable" caste in that hallowed, ancient system over there.
