Originally Posted by
flyallnite
WHOAH, pump the brakes T! Not FNWA myself, but I'll take that as a compliment!
. You did pick up on the quotes. I did beg the question. Where else in our system do we need the capacity and range? If this were true, I'm just wondering what the plan would be for those airframes... always thought we should have more of them though, great plane.
I don't see it as a 747 replacement, yet, even the 777-300, we are still finding good use for the whales.
I was in NRT last April, about a month after the big earth quake. I don't know how much the NRT traffic has recovered since then, but at that time, according to some of the BKK F/A's I spoke with, their loads were very light. As in 100 people, in a big 4 engine jet.
I hope the loads in and out of NRT have recovered by now. I haven't been out that way in several months, maybe Carl can tell us what's going on, load wise, with the Whale flying. I did see somewhere that come summer, they plan to put it back on ATL-NRT, which will free up a 777 for somewhere else. There was a rumor they were going to add a second Dubai flight, 3 days per week, but later Anil said no. And Anil knows everything. I'll just ask him in a few days when I'm over there.