Originally Posted by
PilotWombat
There's only 10 of them. Why pay the costs associated with keeping a whole subfleet of 10 airplanes in the air when you 1. don't need the lift and 2. can replace the mission with other aircraft you have?
I understand simplifying but aren’t the A319s pushing 25 years old vs about 12 for the -700s. I just figured we would keep a fleet like the -700s for hot /high/short field and replace the A319s/ 88s with a220-300s.
I also could just be bitter because I was 73N before I was UNA