Originally Posted by
azz767
My point was regarding the 2/3 Avion aircraft that per Jethros are staying all winter.
So why lease a shed load of your own A321's to TS for the winter and then need to keep 2 Avion frames for the winter? That's why I asked if the TS deal was that good that they were willing to leave themselves short of their own a/c or are the Avion frames that cheap to lease, because to me it seems a bit of a long way round to do it, lease your own a/c out and lease someone else's in.
To be fair, i think you've answered your own question. There's a lot more to these deals than "just aircraft". Things in aviation never look simple and straight forward (nor rarely are either), but there's almost always a reason of why its done that way from a financial point of view.