Originally Posted by
CLazarus
Ah, I do believe you are correct. Forgot that detail. However, the stronger dollar does give us some wiggle room to ask for a discount. Kind of like going into a car negotiation knowing the dealer's invoice price.
Another fill in to that last post of mine wondering about 777-300 intake and assumption of 747 flying. I didn't consider the conversion of older 777s to domestic configurations. Thus, there are going to have to be at least some additional WBs acquired after the 14 -300s, be they more -300s or A350s.
According to the website below:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets...19&output=html
We are receiving 5 787's in 2017 (Jan, Feb, Aug, Dec and Dec)
Now I know those can't hope to replace a whale in any world but the one that UA apparently thinks we live in, so don't shoot the messenger. At least that is 5 more airframes in the top Salary bucket.
P.S. Don't worry a thing about all those Norwegian Air International 787s you see on that list, it is a perfectly legitimate organization and is completely in line with the open skies agreement , just ask the DOT!