Originally Posted by REF 5

We couldn't handle a grounding of 8's now. That's some serious financial hurt. The fact we are in the low season of flying now, they can easily accommodate passengers to there destination. Although their are other similiar type aircraft as the 7(seat wise), when you factor in 100% mx commonality, spare parts, pilot training and it would fly 100% of our missions, it's hard to sell that to BJ and GK to change.