Originally Posted by
Probe
According to United press releases, yes. We will fly them less.
We are keeping all 763's a while longer, probably due to 117 crew issues flying across the Atlantic with lCAL 757's. They will just fly other aircraft with less daily utilization. That is the only reason we are growing airframes. We were planning on retiring most of them.
At least that is according to the company. The plan could change tomorrow morning, or afternoon, or evening, and then we could actually grow. Or not.
According to UAL press releases, we are only growing due to the increase in RJ size and slimline seats in Buses and Guppies.
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Hopefully we WILL grow.
I just glanced at Rainey's 3 March presentation slides from the JP Morgan Aviation Conference (united.com>investor relations>Presentations>go to most recent presentation)
Page 5 has 3 bullet points for Efficient Growth in 2015
-Adding Slimline Economy Seats
-Increasing Aircraft Utilization
-Upguaging Regional fleet
I'm not saying the information presented is accurate, but all indications are that they plan on increasing block hours. I haven't read any SSC (system scheduling committee) reports for quite a while so I don't know if there's communication between departments at United on this matter. ... ah, who am I kidding - I doubt there's communication across departments at United.