Originally Posted by
Knotcher
Uh not quite. The overhead may be old tech, but the aircraft are brand new or very young, much younger than 757s from the 80s. We're talking aircraft age here, and many blue aircraft are ancient relatively speaking. Also, how many blue aircraft are GLS capable? A bunch of the 73s are...
Passengers pay the bills, they don't care what the cockpit looks like. From the passengers point of view I'll take the brand new 737 with a dreamliner interior than a musty 757 with the square bins and circa 1985 picture tubes hanging in the aisle. Those are just embarrassing.
As far as the second part not sure what you are talking about. An airplane with low operating costs will make money, more than one with high costs. Why would a company decide for an aircraft not to make money??
Delta's got many of the oldest airplanes in the industry and they seem to do just fine so get over your "embarrassment" and your fixation with "new and shiny." What are you, twelve years old?
The only thing that matters is if the airplane is matched intelligently to it's mission and that's where we're failing miserably.
What good is a "dreamliner interior" if entire rows of seats need to be blocked because the airplane can't get the **** job done?