Apparently Virgin only owns 8 of those planes and the rest are leased, so the speculation I read is Alaska is just likely to change them all over to 737s eventu

Apparently Virgin only owns 8 of those planes and the rest are leased, so the speculation I read is Alaska is just likely to change them all over to 737s eventually. And if they have the capital to operate that same system using purchased planes and not leased planes, then they'll be running the same routes with more favorable finances than Virgin was able to.