Originally Posted by
Tagron
The potential benefits to Stobart from the BACF deal seem clear enough, but what is in it for BACF? They already have a large and expanding fleet of E190s (20+) so one might think it would be easy enough for them to lease extra E190s themselves from Nordic Aviation Capital and just operate them as part of the existing fleet. What can Stobart do better or cheaper than BACF itself ? One answer presumably is crew costs. Thin end of a wedge ?
Yes it does all seem rather odd. The advantages to BACF of doing it this way seem very small and they lose direct control over day to day operational matters which could affect on-time performance etc.. From the Stobart point of view it's a normal commercial arrangement through which they will, hopefully, generate a profit but to achieve that they have to lease in a couple of aircraft specifically for it. One would think that they may have less immediate need to recruit additional flight deck crew as they have just reduced their E195 flying programme at SEN with no obvious placements elsewhere for the aircraft. Let's hope it works out well for both parties.