Originally Posted by HVYMETALDRVR

The flights aren't full. I've looked at some of the loads, not every single day of course, but they seem to only fill about 100-135 seats. I think we'd do great filling a 737 like Alaska does, but not the 757. I've heard contrary things about whether we can get an A320 ETOPS certified to do it (don't bark at me on this, I had one person with thousands of hours in the 320 tell me it IS possible and then another management type tell me it's not. FYI I don't fly it or know much about it at all). But if we don't, obviously we'll have to drop HNL with our current fleet.

Also, the 757s are coming up for heavy checks late 2015 going into 2016. Each one is something like 2 million dollars a pop and the company is having trouble justifying paying that much money for an aircraft that isn't pulling it's weight in profits. There are already plans to park one 757 in the next couple months I think as it comes up on it's check.