Originally Posted by
Wingnutdal
That's an ok line of reasoning, but I would argue the economics of the 50 seater make it unattractive to management. I don't think we need to trade anything to park 50 seaters because they are going away anyway.
Question for you guys. What if, stay with me on this, the company said "hey DALPA, we love the 76 seat jet so much we want to operate 200. In return for letting us have 200 76 seat jets that will be the total number of jets we can operate with more than 50 seats."
Or 225 or whatever. We would be reducing the number of 70-76 seat jets by 55? But allowing more 76 jets in the process. Catch 22.
I think the real issue here is that many of these 50 seaters are under contract to fly through 2017. To park them before the end of the contract results in substantial penalties.