Originally Posted by
Carl Spackler
The key is flexibility. They can park them or they can fly them. If they park them, they save money. If they fly them their total cost of operation is about the same as other 100 seat airplanes that have to be leased. If you don't understand that, I can't help you.
Carl
You keep making his point. The "flexibility" of which you speak means they're easier and therefore more likely to get parked. If you don't understand that then I can't help you either.
That being said, I spoke with one of the higher ups (name changed to protect the innocent) the other day and he candidly said that while the 30's were to go by by in short order the 50's would very likely have a future as a stop gap measure in the 100 seat market as a gap exists and
they don't like any of the new product available in that seat range. (ERJ and such) He went on to say that in this environment any fleet plan would not only need a date stamp but a time stamp to be reliable, as it may change two or three times in any given day.