Originally Posted by
Timbo
Thanks for trying to clear that up VPR and BB.
BB, your very last sentence is the part that bothers me...
You KNOW those 747's are not long for this world if the price of oil keeps going up up up. So in the next two years or so, let's say they do increase the mainline fleet size, (add 717's, maybe some of AA's used 777's) and work another LOA to get ever more 76 seat RJ's...and THEN they start parking the 747's...yet the RJ fleet remains, in greater numbers than before.
Yeah...that's the ticket.
You see that nugget in the opener called a production balance? That would mean we grow they grow, we shrink they shrink, no more once delivered never removed. (At least that is how I read what a production balance wrt to DCI flying would be done)