I'm sure he meant to say the old JFK

They've been saying for some time that the 7ER will be the Pacific plane... I guess they really meant it. Did you know, for instance that it's a 7ER from NRT to PEK? There's all sorts of ER flying now that's 'off the radar' in terms of what we normally see. They are going to use a 7ER between JFK and SEA too I see.

I've given up trying to predict what airplane will go where, I've been fence sitting on a bid and probably the only people more confused than I am is crew resources. I mean, what widebody can you reasonably count on being stable? They shift flying all over the place now.

I wonder too if the days of point to point Europe flying are over for good, or just on hiatus until the economy picks up again. And when it does, what sort of airplanes will we have flying it? The older ER's are about 1991 vintage, so they've got about 10 years left in them.

JFK is extremely important though. I think we'll see DL flying bigger metal to the business markets for now, and trying to steal some customers from UCal and AA. But when you see markets like IST just vaporize, it's pretty disconcerting.

That Haneda slot time out of SEA looks pretty painful... who are we connecting over here at 6PM Pacific time? The slot times need improvement or that route will fail too. PVG... no idea. I hope it's a winner, and they bump it up to a 330 or a 777.