belchfire
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I hope you're right, Belch. To say these planes are MX hogs would be an understatement of the year. Reliability was improving and then it got cold outside. Management couldn't have possibly baked MX issues like these into the business plan or else they would have run from these planes. The leasing companies that own these airplanes should be paying RegionsAir to put up with this BS. Somethings on the horizon for RegionsAir, though. Let's just hope it's not the end for Regions.
The change of seasons always spurs a rash of problems. I bet the jballs are doing some wierd stuff too...they always did for the first couple of weeks of cold. They don't like it any more than I do!
Well, the older and more clapped out the airplane, the cheaper the lease...I don't know what the difference would have been to go ahead and get -B or B+'s that hadn't been parked for as long, or to sent a crew and mechanic to check the airplane out (rather than two pilots to bring it home regardless of the condition) and really I do hope it works out. But the whole thing looks like it was a good plan that was poorly executed.
The big question is "have they learned anything?"...
only time will tell.
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