Originally Posted by
sailingfun
We never gave any nines to value jet. We traded nines to McD as part or a MD88 purchase. They were then parked in the desert. Value Jet purchased or leased them from McD. The fact some of them were former Delta had no real bearing on starting Value Jet. Lots of airframes available at the time. We could have pushed them off a cliff and all we would have done is lose money. Value Jet would have been flying with or without them.
I stand corrected. My point was more about not taking the 717's 15 yrs ago as a hedge against AT to make them buy bigger, more expensive 737's or smaller, less capable RJ's. Instead, they had a modern, efficient, mainline 100 seater to fly against our 73-200's 10 times a day to MCO and TPA.