Originally Posted by
OldFlyGuy
223 max. Hyperbole? Who is injecting unnecessary big words? It would not be cheap to unwind the contracts to buy/lease/capacity purchase/ or whatever else is involved. Esp if you wanted to do it quickly. Do you think DAL would just pick up the phone and say "Oh, we decided to bankrupt your company today by violating our contracts." Nope. Probably would cost big bucks. Methinks you oversimplify in your mind. OFG
That's not what sunsetting means.
Those jets are staggered across multipile carriers in contracts that constantly expire in little chunks on a rolling basis. Sunsetting doesn't mean picking up the phone and saying "we decided to bankrupt your company by violating our contracts". That's just hyperbole.
I would like to see at least some meaningful sunsetting (50-60 of these DC-9 sized jets) as their contracts naturally expire and can't be renewed. The rest can be renewed…until next contract where we go after another 50-60 of them...