Windcheck says what?

Anyway that sounds like a pretty good fleet mission plan over all. Our baby busses are old and getting older fast. Some of the new 73's were ordered to replace them as well as some 75's. I suspect we will continue to see some overlap in missions that blur some of the size/capacity lines but in the macro I'll go with that.

It will be interesting watching the remainder of our fleet replacement orders play out. Most seem to be of the opinion that a split order is a slam dunk. While possible, especially if prices are right, I wouldn't discount a borderline radical shift towards Boeing for the rest of the baby busses and MD's going forward.

Whatever SWA flies is never, ever, going to have a massive fleet grounding AD so there is no exposure there, Boeing appears more willing to wheel and deal and we are committed to a large number of new 73's as our baby bus fleet ages rapidly and we need to at least start seriously thinking about an MD88 replacement.

The baby bus is an OK transcon airplane. Not the best, but it can hold its own. I think the 73-800 is slightly better and of course the −700 is like a baws at least in mission, marketing notwithstanding. Of course from the pax perspective, the baby bus is better although I haven't seen the "sky interior" or whatever its called, I'm sure the bus still beats it.

Then there's the issue of IFE. We like it in the 73s and 75s but aren't investing anything equipping the minibusses with it. That leads me to believe that unless we order more, the 320/19 is destined to morph into sort of an MD-88/90, 91, whatever it takes kind of role while the 73's do more of the longer stuff.

Of course one end of any coast to coast flight is the west coast and there is no money there and AS dominates and we can't do it ourselves or we trash the yields so we will just give it all to them but they feed our widebodies so its all good amirite?