Originally Posted by
Smooth at FL450
and adding a 2nd fleet type does not protect the company from another grounding. Losing 50% of our capacity is just as crippling as losing 100%. Adding a 2nd type just doubles our odds of another grounding issue. Andrew Watterson thinks we’d need 6-8 fleet types before there is any real protection.
B6 has 2 fleet types. So
does AK. HI has 3. AA has 4.
Clearly 6-8 is ridiculous since others have figured it out with far less.