Originally Posted by
El10
Why would you need 321s after just committing to 161 200-seat airplanes?
What everyone is looking for is the insight into what will be the replacement plan for the older and smaller 737-700/800 and 319/320s. With a two year lead time on orders, they need to start getting serious with a plan.
Whats wrong with the current guppy fleet, other than the fact they're guppies? They have years of life left, most delivered in the last 4 years.
Virgin has a bunch of NEOS on order, 320/321s. They're taking 10 and the rest have been deferred until 2020. Their current fleet starts coming off lease in 2020.
United has 160ish 737 Max variants deferred until 2020, the 737-700 order that's been converted to Max 10's mainly.
Alaska final fleet plan will be announcement at the end of the year.
United fleet plan will be announced at the end of the year (4Q according to last Investor Conference presentation).
Makes too much sense to actually happen though.