Originally Posted by
bailee atr
I spoke to PB today and he says that the options are on hold to see if APA gives in on the 76 seat scope and use the financing for those planes rather than the 22 CRJs. If not or negotiations take too long they will settle for the CRJs.... No given timeframe.
AMR gets what AMR wants. If they wanted 22 CRJs on the property tomorrow it could be done. How many hundreds of millions did AMR get for leasing back the P.O.S ATRs to some Norweigan investors? AMR just raised
$276 million through a private debt sale as well.
As bailee said, AMR is waiting to see what happens with scope. If APA allows 76 seaters at Eagle then I bet we see those 22 CRJ options tossed in the trash and money spent on an E170 fleet. If APA doesn't budge on scope, then AMR can always go and get 22 more CRJ700s for Eagle without any arguments.
It doesn't matter how/why/what the details of the 22 CRJ options are. AMR gets what AMR wants, even if the details are shAAdy.