Originally Posted by
Reversethrustset
PDXCWL45 I doubt it, whilst it was on the wish list they simply didn't have the money to dispose of them before lease expiry.
Hasn't been dumping the E95 the plan ever since Operation Blackbird started in 2015 (?). Back then they could not get rid of all E95s as desired, stored 9 at NQY, IIRC, and then found some airports like CWL and DSA willing to fork out money in return for some shiny new routes. Unless these subsidised operations unexpectedly turned into a goldmine or the E95 could, with the help of a magic formula, be turned into a cash cow elsehwere, the plan must always have been to dispose of the E95. My understanding is that since 2015 they existed with BE on borrowed time.