Originally Posted by
Snakecharma
They paid more for the ATR’s than they did for the ejets.
The whole Skywest/Virgin deal was a certain Skywest major shareholder's Alan Bond moment. He did the deal for XR to operate the ATRs, leased on ridiculous rates from his leasing company, then sold Skywest to Virgin. And in the end Virgin had to put the ATRs on their AOC anyway after a few little mishaps that may have become big mishaps.