Great Link JP!
It looks like the Avro isn't as exspensive as I thought. I compared them to Mesa's CRJ 900 Cost per block hour is about $250 difference in mesa's favor. Cost per a trip is $130 difference in mesa's favor again. Fuel burn 590 avro and 592 crj900 per block hour. Mesa saves it money mostly by cheaper maint. about 80 percent of savings and the other 20 comes from cheaper flight crew.
So put 85 seats in the avro with some first class and we are pretty compareable.
If NWA can renegotiate the lease terms maybe we will keep 'em.
It looks like the Avro isn't as exspensive as I thought. I compared them to Mesa's CRJ 900 Cost per block hour is about $250 difference in mesa's favor. Cost per a trip is $130 difference in mesa's favor again. Fuel burn 590 avro and 592 crj900 per block hour. Mesa saves it money mostly by cheaper maint. about 80 percent of savings and the other 20 comes from cheaper flight crew.
So put 85 seats in the avro with some first class and we are pretty compareable.
If NWA can renegotiate the lease terms maybe we will keep 'em.