Originally Posted by
wheels_down
The mining contracts are quite lucrative financially and will be for the foreseeable future.
Removing the entire cost layer of VARA and everything single thing associated with it, essentially shutting it down, and operating these routes with Mainline 737s, would still be quite a highly profitable operation.
A lot of doors will open with the new single fleet run venture. Costs will drop like a rock.
True, but who owns VARA at the moment? Certainly not Bain according to the Administraters. When Ansett collapsed it dragged down all the highly profitable subsidies like Kendall and Hazo's.