Originally Posted by
unobtanium
This is the ultimate plan, to slowly replace all 737's with 320's. Soon all domestic aircraft will be branded Qantaslink crewed by network/cobham/sunstate/whatever and the passengers wouldn't know the difference all they see is the red tail, same same. Its been tested on the eastcoast with ****ty old 717s and no one seems to mind.
thats not entirely true. The 717 is a different aircraft size. An a320 is effectively the same as a 737. So it hasn’t been tested as a ‘replacement’ as such, and when the 717 was growing, no one from the 737 was forced out of the business. Entirely different scenario if the a320 is growing and the 737 is shrinking.