Originally Posted by
oldmako
Which is EXACTLY why we were laughing our sphincters off over the last few years when the black team was bad mouthing our crapped out "ancient, small engined, non ETOPS fleet" and all the other BS we got to wade through during the dating phase.
The contract is the key, not the airplane. As far as it "making money", that's a canard. The company decides whether or not the plane makes money. We decide how to operate it.
Uh not quite. The overhead may be old tech, but the aircraft are brand new or very young, much younger than 757s from the 80s. We're talking aircraft age here, and many blue aircraft are ancient relatively speaking. Also, how many blue aircraft are GLS capable? A bunch of the 73s are...
Passengers pay the bills, they don't care what the cockpit looks like. From the passengers point of view I'll take the brand new 737 with a dreamliner interior than a musty 757 with the square bins and circa 1985 picture tubes hanging in the aisle. Those are just embarrassing.
As far as the second part not sure what you are talking about. An airplane with low operating costs will make money, more than one with high costs. Why would a company decide for an aircraft not to make money??