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Hmmm. The only thing that casts doubt on this being true is that it says "discussions with aircraft manufacturers regarding the purchase of new planes." I don't buy it.
Had it said "discussions with airlines regarding the purchase of their used aircraft." I'd buy it.
I'm sure not only are we eyeing every MD-90 in the world and play footsies with SWA over the 717, but don't forget about AMR's parked A300s, 762s and Fokker 100s. Also, we could try and buy back the MD-11 and convert them back into airliners via a "snip-snap-snip-snap" method of aircraft transformation based off of Michael Scott's vasectomy, vasectomy reversal and then subsequent vasectomy. We could bring back the Avro jets. United might be willing to sell us their 735s, 733s and 762s as well. And I haven't even hit the international airlines and what they have to offer.
Really, a boneyard is a goldmine.
I thought it was interesting too. I got that quote in a e-mail news snippet, so I searched and found the whole article on Bloomberg. It stated discussions with aircraft manufactures for narrowbody replacement. I will try to find it again and post the full story. I guess it could tie into the statements a few weeks ago regarding the 320 NEO.
It will be interesting to see how they will pull this off while still reducing the debt load. If nothing else this management team has been creative, so I expect a new aircraft purchase will be no different.
Edit: Here is a link to the article for those who are interested.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-1...h-of-1-3-.html