Originally Posted by
Aero1900
When Indigo placed the massive 400 aircraft order back some years ago they negotiated a significant discount on the planes. When we take possession of a new aircraft we immediately sell it to a leasing company and then lease the aircraft from them for 8 to 12 years. When we sell it to the leasing company they pay market rate for the aircraft which is maybe 10 Million more than our negotiated discount price from Airbus. Frontier then pockets the $10 M and we begin making monthly lease payments on the aircraft
i’m still somewhat new around to these parts but I hear people here say often how they hope someone like delta or UA will just buy us. But when we don’t own any of our gates, or any of our ground and gate staff, or any of our planes…what exactly is there to buy? A pilot and FA group? A single hangar at DEN? A HQ building off of Peña with the “R” on the sign burnt out?