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Old 03-13-2019 | 04:04 PM
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I understand not all 737s are grounded but if we had a plane grounded that comprised a large portion of the operation we’d be finished. Hope this max issues gets figured out quick.
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Old 03-13-2019 | 04:13 PM
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Our NEOs have almost certainly racked up more ramp time than those Max will.
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Old 03-13-2019 | 05:06 PM
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Originally Posted by Sherpa
Our NEOs have almost certainly racked up more ramp time than those Max will.
True but they were such a small portion of the fleet and from what I’ve heard is Pratt and or Airbus was making spirit whole in some way on the lost block hours. I doubt Boeing is going to foot the bill for a world wide shutdown.
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Old 03-14-2019 | 06:28 AM
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Originally Posted by Qotsaautopilot
True but they were such a small portion of the fleet and from what I’ve heard is Pratt and or Airbus was making spirit whole in some way on the lost block hours. I doubt Boeing is going to foot the bill for a world wide shutdown.
Perhaps they did make NK whole but the pilots lost the block time. I didn’t see any extra flying when those planes were parked.
It’d be a very bad day if, say, all 321’s were parked.
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Old 03-14-2019 | 06:37 AM
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Originally Posted by Qotsaautopilot
I understand not all 737s are grounded but if we had a plane grounded that comprised a large portion of the operation we’d be finished. Hope this max issues gets figured out quick.
You must be ridiculously bored.
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Old 03-14-2019 | 06:38 AM
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The sky is falling, the sky will fall, the sky might fall, what would happen if the sky fell......folks, we've reached a new level here.
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Old 03-14-2019 | 10:28 AM
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Hypothetical here, what if the company was liquidated? Would that hold up the PBS launch?
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Old 03-15-2019 | 06:53 PM
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Originally Posted by Qotsaautopilot
I understand not all 737s are grounded but if we had a plane grounded that comprised a large portion of the operation we’d be finished. Hope this max issues gets figured out quick.
Yet another reason for dual fleets. Time to order 100+ CS300s to connect more secondary and tertiary markets.
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I hope Bombardier is giving you residuals.
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Originally Posted by Qotsaautopilot
I understand not all 737s are grounded but if we had a plane grounded that comprised a large portion of the operation we’d be finished. Hope this max issues gets figured out quick.


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