Originally Posted by
Tom a Hawk
When have we shown an affinity for used airplanes? Avianca has 8 and azul has 5 a330s and most are leased. The 330 is a popular and performing airplane, those leasing companies will be able to place them globally without having to severely discount them to us. The 321lr is the conservative bet and the one I hope JetBlue makes. If we do long haul to a region and it takes as dump because of Zika, Ebola, Isis, or bird flu we can re deploy those 321s domestically or to a different region without selling the farm.
It's not a conservative call if the performance isn't going as advertised....and as CCH said, it boils down to cost at some point......
There's a reason we keep adding seats to the 320 and the only plane we're taking now are 321s......ASM is the name of the game...
If we can get a 330 reasonably priced, I don't see how the company doesn't go with that.........there was discussion that they wanted 220-250 airframes in order to feed a WB fleet....we'll be at the top end of that number in 2 years...right about the time an ETOPS cert would be completed....