EZY Deal
A few comments to previous posts:
There was a major shock in the industry when EZY switched from Boeing to Airbus - the learned opinion at the time was that the B737 is the LLC aircraft of choice so Airbus made them a deal they could not refuse. EZY continue to buck traditional LCC thinking by continuing to operate a mixed fleet as the B737s have still not left the fleet.
RYN, and any other Airline for that matter, can squeeze major discounts out of (any) supliers due to the numbers involved - in commercial parlance its called a volume discount - any airline with a potential order of 200 magnitude would be criticized for not obtaining such a discount.
C-Checks occur around 3000 - 4000 Flight Hours or around every 18 months depending on each airline's approved maintenance programme which is based on their operational profile. So RYN are not selling their a/c before a C-Check - more likely before a 6C which I believe is the first biggy in the programme.
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