Originally Posted by
JetBlast77
If XJT would not have kept them, CAL planned to give them all to CHQ and other providers and to continue to remove 69 aircraft until ExpressJet was no more. Ream HAD to keep the aircraft and do something, anything, with them to keep this from happening. Yes, they lost a ton of money with branded but it was either that or go TU a few years later.
I don't think it can really be said what would or would not have happened.
An alternate scenario would have been this;
69 airplanes given up, THEN when the time came to reduce again per the prior CPA, XJT gets forced into signing the same (or similar) type CPA they got forced into last year, with the language of 205 aircraft, with the option to take them down to 190 per the written timeline.