Originally Posted by
BlueMoon
Apparently I didn't convey my point clearly or you missed my point
That no one would buy and airline if they didn't have planes to operate (weather they were owned or leased)
And yea, I can do math.
Mate, if you do math as well as you punctuate and spell....
Anyway, when TSA bought Compass they didn't buy airplanes, they bought contracts and leases. It may sound like semantics, but nobody actually buys airplanes when they buy another airline, they simply purchase the rights to certain agreements. A potential investor might negotiate potential lease deals with the leasing companies before they even approached the major with whom you'd be contracting, so that they'd have a cost structure already in mind should the major want to play ball.
What you're getting with Eagle is a turn key operation, should you happen to find yourself with 200+ ERJs on your hands.