Originally Posted by
bkaz
No. That is a false rumor your side continues to spread. All 777's and 767's are etops. Some have two class cabins, some three. They are all etops aircraft. Only a small percentage of the 757's are Etops because The only flying they do where etops is needed is to Hawaii. You guys talk like that somehow makes the aircraft inferior. It is really a matter of what you use that for. Why would you want to pay extra to maintain etops status on an aircraft that never flies anywhere the certification is needed?
Further more there are 14 B767-300 2-class airplanes going over to EWR for Atlantic ops...Something to do with putting the right aircraft on the right markets. The JFK B767 pilots have been getting their Route quals since early January....These airplanes were used on the Hawaii flights.
If you look a future flights out of LAX and SFO to the Islands there are quite a few S-CAL airplanes on those flights...(Seat config 16/144 and 24/194). I think those are B737-800 and B757-300.