Originally Posted by
Bill Lumberg
Maybe this is a smoking gun? I'm all for listening, but I would want to MAKE SURE this is true. Before I kept asking "What is the leverage?" Nobody knew exactly, including me. There had better be verification rather than just speculation. Without verification, then this means zero.
How does it help if this is true? Bombardier wants the market to get C-Series. We don't want DCI to fly C-Series. DCI carriers have contracts for 50-seaters, and will probably go out of business if they allowed us to void them. The company needs an incentive to get forgiveness on 50-seaters. The DCI carriers AND the lessor can work a deal around the 76-seaters.
I understand Bombardier can go either way on this, and I'd love to see us turn in 50-seaters for C-Series instead... but what's the incentive
for the DCI carriers to let Delta out of the 50-seat contracts?
"Who cares" isn't an answer...