Originally Posted by
tsween
you should quote me entirely, it sort of skews things when you do not.
from a financial standpoint the 50 seat planes are too spendy to operate in comparison to the 76 seaters. if this merger were to go through, i think 50 seat flying would be reduced
People are always making this claim and I have to wonder if it is fact or just rumors all based on message board gossip. If the -200s are so inefficient to run why is NW running them? Does Delta have some kind of secret information that NW does not know about and is going to immediately ground the 200s? If they ground them what happens to the planes (if you are going to reduce flying you will ground planes right)? I know this is a message board and we come here to speculate but your speculation about 50 seat flying being reduced has the same odds of happening right now as my opinion that Mesaba will not be a company next year at this time.