Originally Posted by
tsquare
Well in all fairness, there is nothing in the contract that said we WILL get them. It DOES say that in order to do the RJ deal they must get them and put them into service.. but they could have tanked the whole deal and run with the RJ fleet in the current configuration. It wouldn't make any sense.. but they could have done that..
If they didn't get the 717s, they wouldn't get the 70 76 seaters, and then they would have just had to park 200 plus 50 seaters to bring them down to 125 total. It seemed obvious that they would have to get small narrowbodies to get what they wanted, 76 seaters and fewer 50 seaters.