Originally Posted by
KirillTheThrill
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. They had Mesa flying to Paris, it won’t be a simple as you say.
Full disclosure: SkyWest was doing sims in Paris too at one point.