Plot thickens
We heard a wif of this a little while back about the same time as the TEAL 320 thing happened. It has a bit more to do with QF QCC playing games and shafting (sorry lowering their cost base liabilities) and getting out of all 717 ops in one go. Maybe it has been spured by the Jungle Jet announcement.
Spanair Link have got four 717’s (l/n 59-61 & 66) and Big brother Spanair have another 30 odd MD-80/87 and are majority owned by the SAS group.
Two were leased out to Germanwings for a while and LH were relatively happy with performance however they were not happy with the weight and cost in comparison to other top end RJ’s emerging at the time.
If it happens they would probably make sense as Spanair Link have a lower cost base to mainline…… now where have we heard that before………..