Originally Posted by
slowplay
That's not the way it has worked so far...we once had a whole lot more 50 seat rj's and the first ones were delivered in 1993. That means a whole lot of them left when their DCI or EDC contracts were up, and that was well before 20 years. The 700's and EMB-170's are similary situated.
There's 311 of the 50's obligated through the end of 2015.
Yes because the 50 seaters are pigs unless oil is 30/bbl like in their salad days. The 70 seaters and especially the 90 seaters are much more CASM sustainable (on par with mainline) and that is what is so horrifying about them being outsourced. They will never leave the fleet (unless something of greater CASM is built in which case they will just replace DCI with DCI and never mainline).