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MRJ Resuscitated By 100-aircraft Deal With SkyWest

SkyWest Airlines commits to 100 MRJ90s at Farnborough.

Mitsubishi Aircraft received aa 100-aircraft commitment for MRJ90s from SkyWest Airlines at the Farnborough International airshow yesterday.

By Gregory Polek • Senior Editor

July 11, 2012

Mitsubishi Aircraft received a huge dose of credibility at the Farnborough International airshow yesterday by announcing a 100-aircraft commitment for MRJ90s from the largest regional airline holding company in the world–SkyWest Airlines. The agreement in principle, signed just this week, potentially raises the MRJ regional jet family backlog to 170 airplanes and gives Mitsubishi its second major U.S. customer.

“This is the market we’ve been targeting all along,” Mitsubishi Aircraft vice president of sales Hank Iwasa told AIN. Restrictions in U.S. major airline union contracts that limit the size of airplanes that regional airlines may operate have long hindered the company’s efforts to break into the U.S. market, but Iwasa expressed confidence that one or more of SkyWest’s major airline partners would negotiate less restrictive scope clauses by the time the first MRJ gets delivered.

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