Originally Posted by
slowplay
If they buy all 70 allowable, then they have to have 88 small narrowbody aircraft on the property, 125 50 seaters left, and a max of 450 total DCI left. Then they do the ratio and ensure that for every block hour DCI flies mainline has at least 1.56. It's planned to be over 1.7.
And what happens if they don't?
Once those aircraft are on property at DCI with 20 year contracts, where is the poison pill?
What happens in 2015 if Delta parks mainline planes in 4Q 2012?