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.