Originally Posted by
XJTFO
Dovic91 - What was wrong with out E175 operations? I saw full flow boards and no cancelled flights. Our CCF was 100% for months. That was a very well written set of paragraphs and some of the stuff makes sense, but not our reliability. I never experienced a cancelled flight out on the line this winter except for one weekend due to weather.
XJT could not staff all 25 E175s. According to communications provided to UA in early February, the last 4 aircraft in the delivery could not be flown. Came up short.
I do believe however, that if UA had known the full extent of how this crisis would develop, they’d have just agreed to leaving them on the ramp at the time. Since that’s essentially where they ended up. I’m assuming that UAs motive was to keep all of them flying without any delay in utilization since the clock was turning on the manufacturer provided support.
Guaranteed OO agreed to fly them but only under the conditions that all 25 were transferred to their network. It was just.....good business.