Fair enough. I thought you were referring to long term wetleases in general. This are completely commonplace throughout the world. Even wetleases where the carrier taking out the wetlease actual leases the aircraft to the operating airline.
Cobham isn't going anywhere, IMHO. Qantas had the chance to keep 717 operations in house back in 2004. Jetstar and Cobham bid for the QantasLink 717 flying. I thought Jetstar was a shoe-in (Jetstar even put out EOI to crew for CNS and PER Link bases). There must have been a vested interest to switch the new type over to Cobham.
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