Originally Posted by
Bluedriver
1. How many currently out of service?
2. Yes, most of them are flying right now, as are most of the E190s. So if you start parking more E190s without taking more A220s, from this point, then block hours/ASMs will shrink.
If you're already flying all the current A220s, and all the current E190s, you can't park a bunch of E190s and only take a few more A220s without reducing the schedule.
They would either have to shrink as you mentioned or increase utilization of the A220 or a little bit of both. So the question is, what is the current utilization of the A220? Are the 11 or 12 planes already at Max utilization? I don't believe they are since it sounded like they still have somewhat of training wheels on them (ain't stretching the legs to their full extent as yet) but I dont know for sure.
Also as much as the 220s are delayed, we will probably get 1 or 2 more by the end of the year.