Originally Posted by
sailingfun
They are replacement aircraft to cover the accelerated retirements on the MD88's.
That's what we've been hearing all around, as well as the 321's (particularly the 50 additional ones etc). But for a company who loves to sharpshoot every route they can, there's a pretty big seat difference between an 88 and a 739/321. This leaves us with a relatively small number of 90's (still 160 seats) and the existing number of old and aging 320's that are already spoken for on existing routes. Other than that, we'll have nothing between the 120 seat and 180+ seat ranges (vaporware C-300 notwithstanding).
Is that really going to work?