Originally Posted by
cadetdrivr
There is a long history at UAL of a management team upgrading aircraft and then then changing their mind and parking them a year or two (or months) later.
If this had not happened so many times it wouldn't be a thing.
parking is probably not the right term... selling to our cargo brethren and/or low cost competitors... they get the updated planes for pennies on the dollar and then beat us over our nuggets.