Originally Posted by
Hedley
This is all purely hypothetical and highly unlikely, but if a company like United were to take back the 175’s that they own, the regionals currently flying those aircraft wouldn’t need to fill those sim slots and they would become available for other companies to lease. SkyWest for example is a company that both operates and leases aircraft. If a legacy were to approach them with an offer to lease aircraft and sims, that could be a better deal than simply losing the revenue when the flying is pulled anyway.
Those Sim slots would not become available. My reference is this, years ago Mesa was working on a 170-190 cert so they could fly UA 175 birds. SkyWest management bought out every 170-190 sim available to make JO’s operation more expensive. They had Mesa flying crews to Paris, it won’t be a simple as you say.