This is just our management playing funny buggers to put pressure on Atlas to keep any cost increases negligible in the next contract agreement.
IF there was any substance in this they would just convert the 400s we have before parking them in the desert and lease them to Qantas freight as a dry lease.
They probably would lease them for a dollar per aircraft like the 330s to Jetstar so the shortfall in leasing charges and costs can be written off as a lost to the longhaul operation.
Now that wouldn't be a surprise
