Originally Posted by
bender
No, it's neither a loss of aircraft nor a gain. 18 bros are being permanently retired and replaced with 18 -700s. 5 bros are being reassigned throughout our "at risk" network. 4 -200s are being swapped for 4 -900s or E175s. We'll need a few extra pilots for the replacement aircraft because SKW keeps more crews per jet than they do per brasilia.
With the way you described it, you're actually gaining 4 airframes then.
And where are those 4 -200's coming from? I noticed that all the "new" capacity was being added to SKW (per the article) but it doesn't mention if they're going to swap those -200's from SKW or ASA. Is there anything to stop SKW Inc from taking 4 -200's off of ASA and replacing them with 4 -900's on to SKW?