What are the labor laws that discourage E-195's in the US? Construction is different than use, I don't see how there could be labor laws affecting that. It's just a jet? There were complicated tariffs and counter tariffs. Even washington state couldn't resist giving boeing a big tax cut, & during all this Boeing asked the state to cancel it so they would be able to claim Embraer was the only one getting one (and the state did cancel it).
This is why "American Airlines" flights to smaller cities are flown by "Piedmont Airlines" or some other subsidiary. (eg. "United Airlines" runs ads and is concerned about their brand, they get people who work for their subsidiary to actually punch you in the face.)
If a company was trying to get the most of the E195 or A220 they'd probably replace some E145/CRJ200 flights with it and some B737/A320 flights but to do that the conflict between the real airline and the fake airline gets harder to reconcile.
Just as the B787 and B777 replaced the bigger B747 the E195/A220 should have been replacing the 737 in the last decade but the "scope clause" is a brick wall against that.
From the linked article, the “scope clause” appears to be a ill-conceived contract provision, not a law.
One might argue that US labor laws are broken in that they encourage companies to agree to clauses like this, but one might also argue that the airlines blew it and should not have signed the contract.
(It does seem to me that the US has a lot of examples of deeply broken union contracts. I’m not entirely sure what, if anything, the US government ought to do about that.)
> Just as the B787 and B777 replaced the bigger B747 the E195/A220 should have been replacing the 737 in the last decade but the "scope clause" is a brick wall against that.
I can't think of many examples of 737/A320s being replaced by regional jets anywhere, even in countries with no scope clauses?
I can't say it is scientific, but I have seen fewer 737 class airplanes and more E195s over upstate new york with add-on since the second wave pandemic hit the US.
Southwest is still flying the 737 (they expect to be doing that in 2120) but JetBlue looks like an E series airline today.
At least in the SAS and Finnair cases they haven't been replacing larger aircraft, though, which was the claim above? Unquestionably plenty of European airlines fly regional aircraft, but I don't see them replacing A320/737s.
I assume of course they are replacing. Finnair (like SAS) had a bunch of DC-9s and derivatives, then when replacing those, instead of going full Airbus A32x, they also got Embraer 190:s, and now are probably looking at A220:s.
