Originally Posted by
saturn
The most conservative management group out there spends +8 billion on new jets and without consulting their partners, all in the hope that scope will permit them to be used someday. Yeah, thats the more believable thesis. What a big mistake they made, maybe you should have been there to warn them, they obviously didn't know about this and made a risky spontaneous decision.... ..or, maybe, we are like a bunch of mushrooms; left in the dark and fed full of bull crap.
Or a dying regional model and now scrambling for viability in 10 years.
AS TA sounds pretty loose on scope, so maybe that's where it is for... no other carrier is anywhere close, though.