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On 12/17/2002 7:37:08 PM HI-LOCK wrote:
By the Managing Director's own numbers the F100'S are the most EXPENSIVE maintenance/flight hour cost of any aircraft in the AA fleet.They all should have already been parked and this would give us 1 less fleet type,thus making the airline more efficient.The Fokker routes could be handled by the Canadair RJ70 aircraft.The aircraft is extremely difficult to find parts for and it is due some very expensive Major Mods.The sooner, the better.
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You are right about the F100's cost structure. That and the fact that it's an unpleasant little airplane on which to fly make it very unattractive to the company. Give us a little slack on the timeline, though. We don't have enough CRJs to replace our entire fleet of F100s, we don't have the money or credit to buy more, we don't have the scope authority to decrease AA flying in favor of AE (at least not until recently), we don't want to throw larger aircraft at F100 routes (that would increase costs for the same revenue), nor do we have any appetite for shutting down AA stations, RIF-ing, and starting AE stations. Let's all just be glad to hear that those nasty little birds will be disappearing sooner than expected.