Aircraft
Bombardier Launches Three-class 50-seat CRJ
United Airlines plans to deploy at least 50 of the reconfigured CRJ700s with regional partner GoJet by the summer of 2020.
A GoJet Bombardier CRJ700 taxis at Montréal Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport. (Photo: Flickr: Creative Commons (BY-SA) by redlegsfan21)
A GoJet Bombardier CRJ700 taxis at Montréal Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport. (Photo: Flickr: Creative Commons (BY-SA) by redlegsfan21)

Answering a call from United Airlines to replace its aging CRJ200s and add more high-yield seating to the airline’s existing fleet, Bombardier has agreed to revisit what had become a virtually defunct market for 50-seat regional jets with the launch of a three-class version of its CRJ700 known as the CRJ550. Under the plans announced Wednesday, United Airlines regional affiliate GoJet will fly the airplanes for 10 years and launch services out of Newark and Chicago in the second half of the year.