This is pretty much what I've been talking about for months. This is fairly logical fleet plan with our system. The 777-300ER's will largely replace the 747's, with the additional orders. The 777x will start to address the age of our first batch of 777-200's. The 737Max 10 might finally be a decent replacement for the 757's. That's what it is aimed at, and what the airlines are asking for--and about the same time the rest of the 757 fleet will age out, so timing would be right.

My uneducated guess is that with the fast delivery of 300ER's, they will retire the 747's ahead of schedule. I wouldn't be surprised if the A350's got converted to A320's or A321NEO's, and we never see the A350. The 777-300's and X's are pretty much the same thing.

With the deferral of the 737-700's we still need to address the RJ conundrum. This proposal does that.

Co management and Jeffry have wanted to get rid of the PW 757's from day 1. The PS planes. The reason they hung around as long as they did was Glenn actually spent some money on winglets and some basic upgrades. They weren't that far out of compliance with the rest of the fleet. We still have plane #2, which is 1989. So with the small number of PW PS planes this move makes some sense, though I hate to see them go.