Originally Posted by
wheels_down
They have already paid for the Alliance work. I would hazard a guess and say should they decide to cancel work and do it themselves then tender contract issues might arise.
The 737 is too big for a large chunk of the alliance work. That’s why they have most of it.
I get the point, but it’s going to be an expensive exercise doing what you want.
The QQ contract is sheer corporate mismanagement (folly). To sign a commercial contract without equivalent “stand down provisions”, well they wouldn’t do that with a EA.
No point in claiming a FK100/70 can do what a 737 can’t because that’s easily disproved, using the Southwest formula, own your airframes outright.
Highly doubt VAH paid for the QQ flying in advance for the term of the contract.