Originally Posted by El10

We know that that we have over 200 aircraft on order, but thats about the end of reality. What is foolish to think is that we will not park any other aircraft (after the 747) between now and 2020. The VP of fleet has said time and time agian that airplanes have a 25-30 year life expectancy. Look at the ages of our fleet and see what is on order. You can make a better guess as to the size of the airline between now and 2020. Oh and Oscar said we need to keep capacity below GDP. We would need a pretty significant change in GDP to support such a large fleet. I wish the LCA lemons would have called them out on that contradiction.