If baby needed a new fleet like mainline or regional, we'd have one.
Don't you mean if
the board wanted baby to have a new fleet, they'd have one? Necessity has never been a reason for the board to open the purse before!
And getting rid of the -500s to "standardise" on the -300s? Which management e-mail did you copy-and-paste that one from? Since when has there been any significant 'non-standard' issues between the two?!! There was no problem at BM for 11+ years; financial, operational or otherwise...