Originally Posted by
Nil further
I wouldn’t use easyJet’s deal as a comparator . Stelios did a fantastic deal back then, no one else was buying aircraft.
There’s no way that an outfit the size of Flybe could or ever will be able to do deals at the rates that Easyjet can.
Easyjet fuel bill for one week in August is more than Flybe’s market Cap’
Different world.
Nil, I'm not suggesting for one second that the two deals could/should be compared, for exactly the reasons you're quoting.
I'm just sayng that back in those days, an A319 rate would have been fairly high due its high demand on the market, hence suggesting one could have had 2 319s for a price of one eJet is a very audacious claim, especially without figures to support it.
There's a concensus that the eJet deal was bad and company fleet policy has confirmed this for a few years now, I'm just reacting to some cuckooland types of "facts".