Originally Posted by
acl65pilot
Kind of the hat trick I was thinking about. Only flaw is that they do not get to finance these jets and take the cash until the asset is in their possession.
The can set it up, pay their deposits, but the financing does become effective until their is a asset to finance.....
Good point. It could be something similar though. ie: United buys $10B worth of planes 5 years from now if Airbus/Boeing loan them $1B right now.
Either way, this deal seems odd and theres got to be more to the story than is being told. United is simply not in the financial position to do something like this without someone taking on a lot of risk.