Originally Posted by
Super EZ E
Ted said we picked up 7 more airframes (A320) that came available on the preowned market. I could be mistaken but I thought he said 127 airframes by the of end of 2018. Can someone double check the fleet plan? I could be mistaken...
The 7 airframes that "came off the preowned market" were Spirit's NEO's slots that came open when we switched our 4Q 2018/ 1Q/2Q 2019 NEO orders to CEOs in April 2017.
If you have a copy of the fleet plan in 2017, you'll see we were supposed to resume delivery of NEOs in 2018 (55 total) When we switched from NEOs to CEOs, our final CEO airframe count went up (55 to 62) and NEO airframe count went down (55 to 48).
Now we are back up to 55 NEO airframes and kept the 7 extra CEO airframes.