Originally Posted by
acl65pilot
That is what I have been pointing to on the L and G thread. Those carriers get better rates than we do on debt and it allows this debt to be an operational expense for DAL not part of their debt figure.
So why can't Air France or KLM buy some airplanes then lease them to us? Wouldn't that take the debt off our books? Or create some sort of "dry lease" where they buy them, we use our crews (pilot and FA), they pay for the gas and we pay them? We're all part of a big happy Skyteam and JV family right? The company spends a lot of effort taking flying away from us, why don't they put some effort into allowing us to fly the metal.