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Dat jet
Thanks for the news...
Any word on a 737 Max/A320 NEO orders? It's concerning not to have a true 88 replacement...one that seats in the 140-160 seat range.
How many 767s will they retire? If they retire a lot, our widebody fleet will only get smaller. We have 74 767-300/300ERs...but we only have 25 A330-800s, 25 A350s, and 5 more of the 10 total of the A330 IGW. That's 60 new tails. We are also losing all of our 747s here in the next year and a half.
Don't vote on anything that limits widebody scope...our fleet is shrinking.
No mention of 737 Max orders; no mention of 737s beyond the 739s. As for 320neo, only 321 orders were mentioned.
The CS-100 order includes options for 50 more, which could be CS-300s; they are in the 130-160 range, depending on configuration.
I didn't hear a number for the 767s to be retired and didn't ask. Joe said "the oldest" 767s would be retired...so some, certainly not all. I don't know how our wide bodies on order overlap with the 767 retirements or what the net gain/loss for our wide body fleet will be.
As far as the MD88 replacement, there's no 1-for-1 160-seat replacement for now so the plan is for it to be a mix of the 737, 319/320/321, 717, and CS-100 taking that domestic load. Network is doing the math.
In the same way, the A359 is not seat-for-seat with the 747 but will nonetheless replace the 747 on its Pacific routes. The question then is: Will there be more flights to Asia on the 359 than we currently have on the 747 to make up the difference in seats? I suppose that's more math for Network.