Originally Posted by
sailingfun
I suspect any airframe choice will not be announced until a contract agreement. The company will want to leverage any growth airframes in the negotiations.
I hope we ALL understand that there is no way to definitively characterize ANY airframe as a "growth" airframe. The reason is that we have no idea whether management will decide to park other aircraft the very next day.
There can be no leverage for "growth airframes" unless you are a hopeless sucker. Whether new or used, airframes depend on whether management wants to buy and keep them. Nothing we accept in a contract will change that management calculation.
Carl