Originally Posted by
RockyTopFlyer
No joke. I thought the thread was going to be about bid rumors. Instead it was a few crewmembers arguing over the volume of the cans on the aircraft. I bet those guys are a blast at parties.
Well...I am sort of geeky...but it does seem to me the amount of freight on certain airframes might have a direct correlation to fleet decisions, which affect future bids.
Go read the 767 HKG bid FCIF and the 75/76 page, and you'll read about how the 76 was going to replace the -11 on the intra-Asia flying. What a few of us are pointing out is...well...that ain't happening.
Where are those -11 coming from that ARE doing the flying? Seems to be LAX and ANC crews doing most of it. To my un-trained eye, that seems to bode well for those bases staying strong or perhaps even growing a bit, or at least the MEM -11 doing more international for a while longer. Perhaps the NRT-SIN will end up being done by a 777 at some point.
But if you would rather just pass on schoolhouse rumors--press. I was just trying to pass on some datapoints from the field.