Originally Posted by
hopeSales
Guess you're taken over the cheap shots from FBN. You lose creditibility when you do that. It's been discussed before about the value of well maintained aircraft. New is not necessarily better - shall we consider the Sparky roll-out. I'd like to see the non-Jeffed numbers for Sparky.
I was not trying to take a cheap shot. If it was taken that way I apologize. My point was simply that when two airlines merge, there are going to be aircraft that get sent to the desert. Odds are it's going to be the older aircraft and that's why the UAL 757s are going away. The 757 was a great airplane but so were our DC10's. When they get old, and yours are old, it's natural to replace them. Given they don't make 757's anymore it was going to either be 737's or Buses. In our case it's the 737 that's replacing them.
I'm not sure where all the sensitivity comes from someone calling your airplanes old. When I climb into the 777 each month I don't give a rip whether it was the first one off the line or the last. CAL's 777 #1, the Gordon Bethune, is now old. Call it what it is, old.