Originally Posted by
forgot to bid
Here I want to explain the equivalent seating better...
Your asterisk is important. If we get 88 717's, that is 10,296 seats, subtract out the 5830 from DCI, and that leaves 4466 seats remaining to come out of the market (since the deal is capacity neutral). Well, 19 DC9's at 124 seats per is 2,356. Bottom line with this math is that there are another 2,110 seats that need to come out of the market for this 717 deal to be neutral. Wonder which mainline jets those will come from? I don't buy the idea that the 717's are growth aircraft.