Originally Posted by embraer
Throw in the cost of fuel per mile flown along with intangibles such as aircraft desirability ( AA's and Delta's MD-80s are recent examples of undesired aircraft by the flying public, anything with a prop has already been for a few years now) and you can see how it is no hyperbole, but reality.
You really can't be
this naive.
Airlines don't give a damn about "aircraft desirability" to the public, they care about economics - acquisition cost and operating cost. MD80s are going bye-bye not because they are "undesired aircraft by the flying public", but because they are getting old & expensive to maintain and burn more fuel than newer aircraft with similar capacity.
See: Delta adding MD90s while shedding 50-seat CRJs.
See also: UniCal maintaining and growing their Q400 feed