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> > > 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.