Originally Posted by
THEKERNALKLINK
Great info, but not the whole story. Personally, my airline (Southwest) has so much debt that is not on the books now, but they are obligated to pay, and would need to pay in order to keep an operable fleet. This does not take that in to account. I am speaking of new aircraft on order. Our fleet is old! I think we are going to end up a 300-400 aircraft company going forward over the next 10 years, but even at that rate of shrinking, we do have to replace the aging fleet. If for any other reason, is to improve our cost per seat per mile.
Used aircraft market is darn cheap right now, and lots of aircraft on the market. MAX aircraft with VERY low time and cycles. Some of them just finished and never actually delivered. Boeing might even throw in a SWA paint job just to get them out of the Renton factory employee parking lot.