Originally Posted by
80ktsClamp
Anyone with two eyes and a brain could see that the 717 deal was too good to pass up. Given the company's behavior with regard to used aircraft deals, there should be zero doubt in anyone's mind they were jumping on that ASAP. Quite obvious the CRJ-200 trades were happening no matter what, too. It would have been a stupid financial decison not to do so, and the company doesn't do many of those.
Not to mention, we gave up more 51+ seaters than the previously PWA allowed.
That was probably more important than figuring out a way to park the 50 seaters. I mean if they can get a bunch of pilots who want a pay raise to agree to 70 jumbo RJs and to decouple it from the required mainline growth then there ain't nothing they can't figure out how to do.