MMM I want one!
I am sorry to say though, that those airplanes should be flown at USair and not at their "regionals". Screw jets for jobs, yes its good that those furloughed pilots have jobs now but the E170/190 is going to pay much less at the regional level because of course, regionals are stepping stones right? And its going to trickle upward into mainline aircrafts pay rates. Pay for aircraft with around 100 seats has already been set with the F100 at AMR and the smaller 737s at nearly every other major. Now they are going RESET those pay rates down to large turbo prop rates. It will spread through the enitre industry, watch.
The other problem is that once those airplanes are given to the regionals, nothing can stop them....that flying is gone, never to return. Getting furloughed pilots jobs flying 70-100 seat airplanes at the regionals is great short term thinking but over the long term, it will hurt the profession. Soon all the 737's will be paying 110.00 an hour........10 years from now, who knows, 140.00 an hour on the 777.