[geeks] [rescue] Computerfests (was: first real server

[Brian Dunbar]

On Apr 27, 2004, at 9:05 AM, wa2egp at att.net wrote:

>>>> Just as an example (and I claim right now not to know if this is 
>>>> true),
>> let's pretend that Southwest's business model is predicated on an 
>> available
>> supply of 5-10 year old planes from the "major carriers"... If 
>> everyone adopted
>> Southwest's model, there would be no ready supply of 5-10 year old 
>> planes...
>>>
>>> Southwest buys new planes.  Their major advantage is they only buy
>>> Boeing 737 aircraft.  There's been some talk about adding another
>>> type, but critics say that will hurt them due to extra maintenance
>>> costs.
>>
>> Cool - there si also the possibility that they *dispose* of their 
>> airplanes
>> beofre they get too old, require a lot of maint. - if everyone bought 
>> new, the
>> used 737 market would collapse, but the new 737 market would boom...
>
> Especially if companies who buy the new ones realized that the old 
> ones would
> have buyers rather than just getting "scrap" prices.

We might be getting far afield from what we know but 'old' airplanes 
usually aren't scrapped as such, iirc they are recycled to foreign flag 
carriers and charters.  There are (again, iirc) several companies at 
the Mojave airport who do nothing but refurb airplanes for this 
purpose.

~brian