SWAPA Comments about 717

[PropPiedmont]

He sure did. SWA will pay Delta $150,000 a month, per aircraft to take them off their hands.That is $13.2 mil a month, over $158 Million a year for many years. Looks like the Delta ValuJet deal has come full circle. R.A. has got to be foaming at the mouth to get the MD-95's (B-717) for basically $0.

I think SWA will be writing the check to Boeing, not Delta. Also, your math is a little off.

 

[Diesel-9]

You are correct. It is $158,400,000 a year. $150,000 X 88 a/c X 12 months.

 

[Citrusflyer]

Too bad they can't charge for bags to negate that little annual payment to <Boeing> ..

 

[SWA/FO]

You guys have some sort of dead child fascination or something? Just shows how tired this thread has become. One side saying they were raped and they other saying stop complaining unless your kid dies.

Stop it. It takes away from the real message of this thread.

 

[Diesel-9]

The word at the meeting was SWA is paying the $$$ to Delta. Whether it is a Thank-You Fee, or just part of the negotiation, but that is what it took to get Mother D to take the deal. SWA really wanted the -717's out of there from day one. Their merger was about access, gates, slots, and $500,000,000 in AirTran's checking account.

 

[redflyer65]

Plus eliminating the competition.

 

[Flyer1015]

How much LUV is there for the Airtran guys? Not much from what I can see...

 

[freightdogfred]

How much LUV is there for the Airtran guys? Not much from what I can see...

Ya think? One Luv has a whole new meaning...

 

[freightdogfred]

He sure did. SWA will pay Delta $150,000 a month, per aircraft to take them off their hands.That is $13.2 mil a month, over $158 Million a year for many years. Looks like the Delta ValuJet deal has come full circle. R.A. has got to be foaming at the mouth to get the MD-95's (B-717) for basically $0.

Yep...an GK is laughing all the way to the bank. To pull the money out, that is...

Any damm fool knows the 717 is a money loser.

Boy that Anderson is an idiot!

 

[THEPRFCT10]

You guys have some sort of dead child fascination or something? Just shows how tired this thread has become. One side saying they were raped and they other saying stop complaining unless your kid dies.

Nothing like that at all man... I think we are all tired.