Originally Posted by
johnso29
So if they make money on those routes, why were they toast?
They're toast because they have CR9s that can do it better and in the numbers they didn't have before...
Originally Posted by
forgot to bid
EB Oct 24: "So when you think about say bringing in 40 76-seaters and taking out 60, 50-seaters, there’s a really good balance sheet and CASM trade there."
Originally Posted by
forgot to bid
EB said [ref 50 seaters] "customers don’t particularly prefer" and "the cost of continuing to keep the 50-seat RJs in the fleet but even more importantly the upcoming fairly significant maintenance costs that we’re going to be experiencing which will run into the hundreds of millions of dollars on that fleet if we had decided to retain that aircraft."
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