Originally Posted by
FWAAA
Not only is the bolded portion factually incorrect,* it makes no sense. Leasing v. Purchase is generally a 6 of one, half dozen of the other calculation.
*UA leases a vast portion of its fleet.
I attempted to edit that post, but the website didn't respond.
My point was that United finances a significantly
larger portion of their fleet than Continental. United owns nealy all of their 747-400 aircraft and about half of their 52 777-200s and 35 767-300ERs. Furthermore, they own the 737s. Continental doesn't own close to half their fleet. Again, this is a blessing or a bad spell from different perspectives.