Originally Posted by
indapit
Would it be cheaper just to buy an airline for its fleet. Say Delta decides to buy Jet Blue or Alaska. Keep their most profitable routes and dump the rest. Their fleets are generally more modern and more so with Jet Blue, they have the IFE.
Maybe, but with that comes other costs.
Most fleets are not owned by an airline these days, sans WN. You would be buying someone's leases. Generally speaking we have better pricing power than smaller operators.