Is there any reason that AAG would HAVE TO assign all 30 of these E-jets to QX? Couldn’t some of them still go to OO (in addition to the 35 + 8 already planned to go to OO)? In other words, those 30 E-Jets aren’t QX’s - they’re AAG’s and the original plan was to send them to QX, but there’s no hard & fast reason that AAG couldn’t devise a new plan to reallocate them to OO, right?
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Dashdrvr
The latest public documents show through 2019: 30 E jets with Horizon, 35 E jets plus 8 options with Skywest.
As far as cost goes there is no indication Horizon is more expensive than Skywest. What is different, Skywest very likely has an industry standard CPA that protects their investment in those jets in the form of daily utilization and stage length. In the end it is very expensive for AS to NOT use Skywest on the long routes. I really don't think Skywest cares one way or another if they do short or long legs. Long legs pay well and the financial downside of short legs is mitigated in the CPA.