Yes, but it’s a private contract and the terms aren’t publicly known. It expires in 2020 but exactly WHEN in 2020 is a little iffy. Nobody is going to abruptly take 36 aircraft out of circulation. Well, OK, if they are MAX’s maybe, but the pax don’t go away and the 36 aircraft are too big a capital investment for Delta to want to stand them all down prior to having the resources to utilize them, and even if Skywest or Mesa had a spare 350 pilots just sitting around on reserve somewhere, all the aircraft need conformity checks before they can be transferred to another certificate.
http://atis.casa.go.kr/ACS/document4...ction_RevA.pdf
So if they decided to do conformity checks on two aircraft a week they
could transfer them out in only 18 weeks. Exactly how the drawdown goes - if at all - depends on the exact dates (which we don’t know) and how quickly they vacancy get the conformity checks done and how quickly Skywest (or whoever) can spin up 350 pilots and the needed maintenance and other personnel. That could conceivably be another year... or not happen at all.
Assuming, that is, the whole take them away thing isn’t some gigantic bluff to make HK low ball his renewal bid or Delta doesn’t decide to buy us back (Delta sold us to T-SHIRT originally) and combine us with Endeavour or sell us to Skywest or Republic or Mesa.
Like I said, it’s all smoke. You might want a solid answer - hell, everybody working for every regional would like solid answers, but they are often in pretty short supply.