Originally Posted by gojo

You are correct. It's the CPA's that need to be negotiated with their mainline partners. AW needs to be careful tthat there's enough room to make the necessary changes to the CBA to get them competitive again in the regional sector. Being that's an unknown it might make them less aggressive to go after new flying. Additionally the mainline partners like it when their regional partners can finance the planes themselves. It keeps them off their books. I would think AW is in a good position financially (just guess as there's no sec filing) to be very aggressive to obtain new flying. The fact that it's not happening is very puzzling