Originally Posted by
Boomer
Some CRJ trivia... That airframe was built for Comair in October 1998 and retired from Comair exactly ten years later. Delta has been making payments on that aircraft for the last 3 1/2 years to have it sit in storage. They're that expensive to operate.
I think Delta's dumping 50s whether you guys offer to pay for it, or not.
Remember that Comair's 50's are cheaper to park (and continue to pay the leases on) as the leases were renegotiated in bankruptcy to be significantly lower than the lease payments on all other 50 seaters. That's why the more costly leased 50's continue to fly...to subsidize those leases. Hence the desire to terminate/renegotiate those leases in exchange for new crj900's.