Originally Posted by
acl65pilot
Maybe, but I would venture to bet, that if they are ours, we will not hear about it until sometime early next year.
In one of the road shows in the SWA crew rooms their management stated they're not getting rid of the 717s... in 2011. Funny to add in the year.
I wonder if they don't want to get rid of an airplane in the midst of the merger?
But, it'll take time to ramp up a program anyways especially since right now it'd have to be a separate category and there you can take the 20 from Boeing (YX airplanes I believe?) and then mix in the others later.
It's just flat out interesting that airplanes were taken off the market. If it is Delta that got them then I have to believe something has been worked out with SWA?