I can't help but think the special MEC meeting today will be dealing with whatever the new AC is. There are a lot of them out there today for which we have no pay rates...

It does make sense to go with the 330NEO, if only from a commonality standpoint, and that doesn't include the engines, of course. It sounds like we are looking for direct replacements for the 7ERs, but I guess the elephant (or whale) in the room is what's going to replace the 747's? Or are we going to downgage a lot of that service onto existing 777's and 330-300's (or -900's if they are the NEO)? We should have our answer soon. Certainly the recent developments in the Japanese economy would point towards a non Tokyo based Asia operation. I've heard from fairly good sources that the plan is to get a JV with Korean Air and eventually someone in China. We'd only need to fly to their hubs then and wouldn't need the range or the payload of anything bigger than a 330, and we could move all the cargo on their big widebodies.