Originally Posted by
rickair7777
NK had other issues. The PW thing might actually have been a wash, for at least part of the time they got paid more by PW to park the planes than they probably could have gotten in revenue if they had been operating. And saved fuel and some crew costs.
You can't run an airline without airplanes. Alaska got paid out too but look at how far behind the operation is simply because we couldn't get deliveries.