Originally Posted by
khergan
Thanks Friendly.
Aren't we also buying all these new planes for cash? I saw that somewhere that we've spent $4.4BN so far this year in cash for aircraft.
If that's the case that's a huge deal with how many brand new airplanes we have on the ramp.
We certainly have more growing pain costs. More hiring, training, upgrading etc which is a cost. Delta has added a net of 25 planes to its fleet this year while United has added 52 net planes to the fleet YTD. Next years is the big one with 118 deliveries and this does not include getting any XLR planes. I'm not sure how many older airbus will be parked, but probably the same as this year maybe a few more, so still a gain of 100 planes.