Originally Posted by
akfr8r
By bringing the two operating certificates together, they effectively need less aircraft to fly the same schedules, because they can share aircraft between HNL and ANC for MX spares. If you eliminate the need for two 737's between the two fleets, that brings total growth of the combined fleet to one airframe. Now, I don't know that this is the case, but they sure don't seem worried about replacing the aircraft that are timing out.
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you obviously don't know much about the Aloha operation and how much flying they do. They can barely fly the current schedule with 4 airplanes. If anything, combining the fleets will allow them to move a 5th aircraft to HNL, not reduce the the fleet.
how do you "bounce " a spare airplane back and forth? the whole point of a spare is that it is in place in the base you need it.