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Old 01-25-2026 | 02:12 PM
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Originally Posted by conquestdz
Angle lake has telegraphed clearly and repeatedly that the 330F isn't making money now. If they can't negotiate something profitable what happens next is so simple....pick the lesser loss, either completing the term of the contract or buying themselves out. The second the latter one becomes clearly cheaper, that's what they will do. They can literally make that decision tomorrow. Probably the only thing keeping the $$ on the side of keeping them today is the TPA block hour requirements already mentioned. I don't want to see any of my coworkers displaced out of anything but that's an unlikely outcome. I still hold out a fools hope that someone will come to their senses and find value in the fleet diversity and potential for the XLR in the 321 program. But that really is a fools hope. They have bet the farm on Boeings max 10 promises. It's a hell of a risk.
We had the same hopes on the VX side. The argument that the leases were unfavorable was a crappy one. The aircraft were sold; we could have been the buyer, or leases renegotiated. Alaska has had two chances to diversify its fleet, and although I think they are taking several necessary pages from the HAL playbook, a diversified fleet is not going to be one of them.
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