Originally Posted by
Auburn17Pilot
Easiest way to answer this question is that we have 85 American planes, 65 United planes, and 68 Delta planes, 30 of those came from Compass. Plus 3 Republic branded planes used as spares for all codeshares. So math states about 40% American, 29% United 31% Delta.
This was Pre Corona. The compass airplanes for Delta may not come back, and Delta has been a lot slower adding back flying than American and United has. So how the cookie will crumble after this is said and done and passenger loads stabilize again is to be determined.
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Actually, we never took delivery of the last 14 compass 175’s and 6 170’s for DL have come off lease. So currently, if they all came back on line there would be 45 planes operating for DL. We’ve never operated more than 78 planes in a month for AA since the bankruptcy and never more than 61 for United. The remainder are the spares accounting for aircraft cycling through heavy checks, paint shops, etc etc.
However now while we’re operating almost all our aircraft for AA and United (and only 13 for DL) the hours per plane is about 20-25% of the normal daily hours.