Originally Posted by n9810f

The speculation that RP will dump the Q400's surprises me.

During the CH 11 process RP was required to file several briefings on its business plan for operating FAH. One document highlighted the plans for Lynx. Now I'm not concrete on this but it went as follows...

Increase Lynx fleet to 12 Q400's
Obtain an additional 10 Q400's for further third-party operations (ambiguous)

Now of course just because RP wrote this as part of its "proposed" business plan should it acquire Holdings - doesn't mean it has to actually follow through. But it proves that just a few months ago the plan at RP was to build the Q400's and fly more for some other unnamed entity.

The other surprise about the speculation...the Q400 was acquired directly for F9's unique route map to feed the DEN hub. It's clearly worked. Look at the last 12 months of numbers. Menke even said that Lynx was profitable (as a stand alone) during certain months. And on the months it's not profitable by itself Lynx is still providing positive traffic numbers to F9's mainline at DEN.