Originally Posted by
hercretired
Why does Airbus give a sh1t ?
If you put an order down for a Honda from the Honda dealer, they made a sale and are happy. Why would the Honda dealer want to buy your order, to then sell again? A bird in the hand is better than not. What if the magical "second buyer" backs out? Uh...
More garbage reporting from Aero News, always 1-2 weeks late anyway. They just now reported the Alaska 737 issue.
I have to assume that Airbus would sell any slots they can get back for a lot more money.
If someone places an order for a 321neo today I think it's about a 5 to 6 year wait to take delivery. United must be willing to pay a premium to cut the line. Indigo does have a ton of orders between JetSmart, Volaris, Wizz and us. Not hard to imagine they would sell a few of the slots back to Airbus for 5 million bucks a slot. Can't imagine JetSmart really needs all their orders? But there's also literally thousands of Airbus on order. Odds are this has no effect on us and it might even just be a B.S. game to try and get a discount from Boeing on more Max