Originally Posted by
Birddog
The IAH CP recently said we were going to keep all the -300s. The Airbus is staying beyond 2025. The -400s which were going to be replaced on a one for one basis with the 350 are now staying indefinitely.
Funny a lot of those old ragged L-UAL aircraft are hanging around it seems.
I heard from a source I consider reliable that the 767-300s, and maybe the 757Ts, are getting "...a -400 cockpit..."
I asked if cost was prohibitive, and he told me an STC was being worked for less than $400k per aircraft.
I don't know if it is this, but Rockwell-Collins just got a retrofit package approved for the 757/767 fleet last July:
http://www.rockwellcollins.com/~/med...well%20Collins
If true, it would make merging the fleets easier, if the cockpits were similar in configuration, and all you really had to learn differences on was engines, and a few backup pumps.