Originally Posted by
ugleeual
my guess is that this round will go junior for FOs... same thing happened a couple years ago in IAD when the 777 seats opened up... first couple bids went junior and then started going senior. My question is what will happen to the IAD 777 base? Will the new 787 routes to PEK and LHR take away more trips from the 777 base or are they additional? I'm wondering if we will see a 777 displacement in the late Fall dependent on how many FOs bid off the IAD 777 BES this Summer and Fall...
PEK is definitely out for the 777. The one daily trip will be flown by 787. I'm just speculating but I think the 777 will keep NRT because they need the cattle car 777 to do the Guam trip. I suppose Guam could be done by the EWR guys...but I hope we keep it.
I could see DCA having both 777 and 787 at roughly similar size manpower-wise.