Originally Posted by
DAL 88 Driver
didn't Delta already have 70 seaters on order and in their plans at that point? [C2K]
I think the initial order was for about 20 something, with I think all at CMR and ASA (wholly owned) but in any case, eating the leases that you're paying 100% anyway on 20 airframes would have been a zero cost item. There is this notion that if we roll back scope abuses that we will be stuck with trillion dollar penalties and that's simply not true. We're stuck with the leases that we're paying for anyway. That's the overwhelming vast majority of the "penalties" we would have to pay...what we're paying anyway.