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Boeing Aviator
What are the thoughts on this forum that we will ultimately take delivery of the 53 firm widebodies on order either as 350-1000's, 350-900's, A330' Neos, 777-300's, 777X or 787's, used 777-300's in various combinations? Not saying specifically A350's but just the total additional wide body lift.
My point is 53 additional widebodies (if not all replacement) represents significant potiential widebody growth. What's the over/under that the long anticipated fleet plan will be announced at the upcoming Paris Airshow?
More internet speculation, but one might try reading between the lines of the latest investor presentation. In that presentation they showed a slide of capital outlays by year and broke out the airplane costs. The slide says we peaked in 2017, but here's the interesting part. The slide shows planned expenditures for 2018 of $2.2 to $2.4 billion. The amount is a hair more than 2016 when we took delivery of 29 or so planes total. Long story short 2018 must have deliveries of more than 5 787s if the plan is to spend $2.4 billion on new planes.