Originally Posted by
beech1980
I'll believe it when I see it. Can't really do much without adding planes. With the constant attrition I don't see how Sun Country could get to 55 planes by 2022. The plan is to return all the -700's, returning one -800 this fall which would mean that in the next 5 years they would need to add 40 -800's.... not sure adding 8 planes a year is feasible with the current contract. With that being said I'm excited for them to try....
Jude mentioned routes from the northeast to FL, PUJ, CUN in the winter as growth. The Hawaii stuff might also come out of another California city as well.
I would imagine he is getting ready to fire lots of people in the office. Sun Country is way over staffed at 92 employees per plane. He said we should be closer to 50.... lots of holiday trimming!
According to Jude, "We have an interesting ability to bring in 737-800s from a deal with Transavia, so we can peak up seasonally, allowing us to double our ASMs in March compared with the previous September"
"Sun Country will continue to focus on used 737s, said Bricker. “We currently fly them 10 block hours a day. But we can peak them up in the March period and draw them down in the September period"
So I believe there is some room for expansion, without adding too many planes...
According to this article:
https://airwaysmag.com/airlines/sun-country-ceo-vision/
He mentions NE to FL during a 12 month period, and HI and AK during peak summer. Did you hear anything more specific, the article I posted earlier he seemed to be a lot more adventurous in terms of growth outside of MSP.