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Used to be Singpilot...
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Sioux Falls, SD is what the reg says on the bus.
Posts: 1,867
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Exactly. Flights are very carefully overbooked so as to be full.
'Old DC-9/MD-80 fleet'..... that fleet has paid for itself 10 times over. If AMR wasn't making money with an airplane, it was gone. The MD-series planes are as reliable as it gets. They do EXACTLY what they were designed to do. Work day in and day out. I always chuckle when I see that 'ancient' line. The cost of financing a newer plane would carry a well maintained MD-8X for a year of maintenance.
Freighters are full because they are busy. Not much airfreight sits in dispatch warehouses very long anymore. Those 'older' freighters are flying for the same reason the 'older' MD's are flying.
They are paid for. No need for shiny and new. Paid for goes a long way to the bottom line.
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