Originally Posted by
sailingfun
You skipped my question completely. I don’t get your point on the other fleets. They came long after the 717. We bought a huge number of 737’s and sold the E190 before we put them in service in favor of the C series.
The forum assured us we would never see any growth from the 717. You were on that bandwagon. They would all replace DC9’s and A319’s. How did it turn out?
It was if you allow more large regional jets you'd get 717s and a ratio requiring growth, but it was not really requiring growth. Their hands were not really tied to benefit us, they wanted to use the fantastic deal on the 717s to get large RJs.