Originally Posted by
CLazarus
This article caught my eye today, was surprised to see that BBD was willing to shrink the CS100 to try and get a UAL order. My only guess is that a shrink would allow the CS100 to park at RJ gates and reduce the required FA contingent to two. Thoughts? BBD must have been pretty desperate for the order to make such an offer.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...n-united-talks
Meanwhile, at the recent town halls in early May I believe the word passed was about two months until the long awaited fleet plan would be announced. Paris airshow is mid to late June. MoM launch customer? I'm feeling lucky! 10X launch customer? Not so much.
Word from the other forum that I mentioned in another thread talked about a problem with getting out of the engine contract on the A350s. I'm wondering if that isn't the major hangup in the decision making process. Manpower Planning is talking about re-starting new hire classes in November time frame so presumably they have some semblance of an idea about next year, but this waiting for the new fleet plan is frustrating.
Looking at theses 2 websites seems to offer one tiny piece of advance information in that they show 2 deliveries of 787s in 2018. So at least we got that going for us
787 Tables
United Fleet