Willie.
Are you in the aviation business? Your pretty assertive about things that don't jive with what I'm hearing and, yes, I'm in the business. At one point, the CRJ program went 5 years without a sale due to Horizon's problems along with the Q400 landing gear problems.
The major airlines know very well what aircraft types work for there business and networks, they aren't just buying whatever A & B tell them to buy, I can assure you if that. As pesky said, there are a lot of unique circumstances to the AC deal, not likely to be replicated.
GF