Originally Posted by
Mofongo
Don't know about SLC, but it's easy to say you'll kill off the 200s when there's little demand for them.
As soon as demand rises, you'll need to replace those airplanes. Highly doubt they'll send 7/9s to middle of nowhere EAS markets like the ones in upper MI.
Nothing has stopped them from doing that before from time to time. To my surprise, a 900 will go in and out of PLN just fine apparently. So it's always a possibility. I'm pretty sure every crew and passenger will be glad to see the 200 go, maybe everyone except Chip.
Originally Posted by
Dixie320
My guess, and it’s just a guess, is that G7/TSH is having real big money issues. They had to return some airplanes and cancel the rest of the deliveries, and TSH shut down two airlines. They can sell the planes that they have on property for cash and lease them and try to keep the company afloat a little while longer. Meanwhile Inc. is taking on the risk because if G7 goes belly up, then Inc is in a position to takeover that flying or lease those planes to another 3rd party.
Originally Posted by
TSA796
Why is there no announcement that they will lease them back to GJ now that the sale has been made public? Why the blank secret airline leasing them? Nothing to hide if GJ will just keep the status quo and will survive a little longer with a multi year lease from SW. Everyone would be put at ease and GJ could try to hang on. I could see hiding the lease to info for now so the demise of GJ is not made public until United gives the word. If end of 2020 is the target, that is a long time to operate with the announcement of a shut down and all the complications that come with that.
Yep. They're already in a 550 configuration, so if GoJet flops then Air Wisconsin can do whatever to take them. Or even Mesa. Sounds like CC still has zero interest in actually operating them but there are still other options if GoJet can't.