Originally Posted by
johnso29
Regional airlines have been operating RJ's purchased by Mainline for years.
Of course. But they have sweetened the pot with outrageously cheaper labor and overhead. A scheme whereby we lease it out to pretend to avoid debt that we will have to pay for 100% anyway and still do it at 100% mainline overhead makes no sense unless the investment/credit community is really that stupid. If they really are that stupid, why haven't we been doing this with all our aircraft for decades?