That's laughable. There will be thousands of wannabes lined up to get a chance to fly the mainline RJ. Embraer would be wise to call the new jet the MRJ, for Mainline Regional Jet. That way the airlines can know that it is a mainline capable jet but one that can be flown at current RJ pay rates.
MRJ is/will already being used for the Jap Mitsubishi RJ.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitsubishi_Regional_Jet
and btw Boeing has a large hand in the Commi RJ
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukhoi_Superjet_100
which (keeping with the way russians copy, i mean design stuff) looks alot like the defunct 728jet that never was:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairchild_Dornier_728_family
what a tangled web they weave......
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