Airline Analyst

Delta Ends Contract with Pinnacle: What's the Impact on Regional Carriers?

I agree with some of the other comments. This writer is way off base when it comes to understanding costs, specifically fuel CASM. How does someone get such summations published?

And who actually owns these aircraft and continues to pay or attempt to dump the leases? What about the painting/repainting and storage or other transition costs? I don't think the article addresses this either.