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Old 04-18-2015 | 05:55 PM
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From: 747-400 Captain
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Originally Posted by BenderRodriguez
Prove it Carl.
I had a very senior executive come to the cockpit on a long haul late last year. He laid it all out for us from the 744 being #2 in low cost to the cost of the heavy checks being the reason they're being parked. The lowest cost airframe on the property is the 757-300.

Originally Posted by BenderRodriguez
You can't prove that any more than you can prove the -200s were profitable hauling cargo.
See above. But NWA had a number of quarters where the freight operation on the 747-200 offset the losses from the entire passenger division of NWA and was the reason we could show a profit some of the time. That data was from the annual reports.

Carl
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