Originally Posted by Sunvox

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.