Originally Posted by
word302
Yes. That is the case.
Yeah, the 700's were our airplanes that the company gave to OO to fly our routes in the great "one fleet type money-saving rationalization" phase we went through a few years ago. Now we're going back to two, because that didn't work. (No, nobody asked us. But the guy who came up with the idea was given a parachute made out of solid gold.)
The 200's are OO's own airplanes that they use when the 700's break because of mtx reliability issues. (Or too many dead Q400's.)