Originally Posted by
tom14cat14
I was just thinking about this the other day. I am not 100% sure on if the number are correct for number of 200's we have but i have heard it is 141. I know that APC says we have less but i think the numbers are a bit low. So anyway here it goes:
We have 141 crj 200's If the Delta TA passes there will be a hard limit of 125 crj 200's. We are losing 16 crj 900 which if delta chooses can be kept at 9E at a 1 for 1 exchange for 200's. Magically 141-16+125. Now if you also count us having the youngest 200 in DCI I am going to predict that if this TA passes we will keep our 900's and lose the 16 200's. To me it just seams to be way to much of a coincident.
First question is can someone confirm that we have 141 200's? And then what do you guys think this is how it is going to go down.
So how do you think it will go down with SKW/ASA 200's they have contracts with Delta to fly them for years.. Delta's gona pay them to park the planes? Doubt it. Plus SkyWest has alot of "pro-rate" markets... Doubt they are going to give up the SLC-SGU shuttle and let 9E take those flights over...
I think the more likley outcome will be, Delta getting out of as many contracts on the 200's they can... The ones they can't they will have to do a 2-1 swap to lower there risk on the contracts.. It's going to be a 3 year swaping out deal... Hold on... If i were ASA/SKY and Delta wanted to get out of a airplane CPA 7 years early.. I would tell them to pound sand unless they were bringing some 900's to the table... On another note, SkyWest also has a min-block hour ratio in there Delta contract. Delta learned that quick last year when they were paying airplanes to sit idle... That only lasted a month before they figured that out... Point is this is way more complicated then just #'s of 200's at each airline...