Originally Posted by 3XLoser

I don't remember the exact number, but CASMs at Midwest were among the lowest in the industry, so I'm not sure in what way Bedford was liberating the cost structure other than pilot pay rates which are a very small percentage of CASM. Bedford also mentions replacing Midwest's 50 MD80s and 717s. In my eight years there, I never counted more than 37 airplanes in the fleet, and when the purchase supposedly happened there were only 9. How does he justify his numbers, and how long has he had his hands in this?