Delta to Discontinue Mesaba Florida Saab Flying

[flap operator]

Doesn't it seems logical that they are painting the oldest 200s with the oldest paint first? Those were the ones in the old NWA scheme and in the worst shape. Kinda like why the Mesaba ones aren't going to be painted until last... because they are the newest ones. There isn't always some conspiracy theory when airlines do things. Further, the red tail 200s are the newest ones in the dci fleet and are all leased. Being out of ch11 will make it hard to reject the leases and parking planes you pay for makes no sense.

 

[79%N1]

Dont worry.....ASA has never painted ANY of their 700's!

 

[DoinTime]

Anything with the tail number starting with 89 or ending with AY are the newest ones and I believe have higher lease rates than the older ones.

The Mesaba and Pinnacle CRJs are the newest 50 seaters in the DCI network. Because they were all NWA leased aircraft the lease rates were reset to very low rates during the NWA bankruptcy. The newest aircraft are generally the last to be repainted. Thats only common sense.

 

[N813CA]

The first ship that Comair had painted in new colors and had a party for was sent back to the lease company a month later. Delta doesn't care how much they spend.

 

[SpauldingSmails]

Didn't Bombardier cut NWA some sort of "sweetheart deal" on the CRJ-200 leases, after they decided to order 36 new CRJ-900s from them as well. I heard there was a discount incorprated into the 200 leases for picking up the 900s.