Originally Posted by iaflyer

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.