Tue May 04, 2021 11:25 pm
Your reasoning can be personal/aesthetic, or you can have more legitimate reasoning as to why it would fit into their fleet well.
As for me...
Maybe Qantas. Obviously because of their 717 fleet which is very similar in size. I can't say the same about Hawaiian just because it's been argued the a220 may not have the same engine cool-down like the 717 that it would need on such frequent short-hops. Cool that JetBlue is starting to fly them.
I don't think the rest of the big 3 US airlines won't go without eventually ordering some (maybe UA won't since Boeing was so keen on selling them cheaper 737s to persuade them not to go Canadian. They might play that game again, but who knows if it would work again). I guess AA might long-term, but they've already worked pretty hard consolidating down to 4-types (737, a320, 787 and 777).
The ULCCs and Southwest all have large single-type fleets already, so I can't picture them really adding another type. Maybe unless they decided they wanted to go smaller and more efficient.
I think Aeromexico was going to order some? Actually they apparently have consolidated all of their Connect ops to just the e190 (oddly enough when other airlines are retiring it), so it almost doesn't seem to fit very well unless they just wanted to expand more.