Originally Posted by
dalad
What to expect when you're expecting- a wide body RFP. Looks like 10-15 to be announced between the 777 and the 330-200. We went to both BA and Airbus asking them to take some CRJ's off our hands and neither was interested, imagine that. Don't know anything about 74's, but it doesn't appear to be of interest. The aircraft are to be delivered in the 2015 time frame, to fly out of SEA and overfly NRT.
Growth widebodies or replacement widebodies?
Cause there's a pretty big difference.
If they are growth, that's a lot of metal to be dedicated to just SEA flying, and would make us even more desperately hyper dependant on AS feed, cause even more AS growth lowering their unit costs and increasing their ability to offer cheap feed to our enemies and increase AA/EK profits which would then turn around and bite out SEA marketshare anyway directly or indirectly.