Originally Posted by
Otterbox
“Contingent on scope relief” most likely... UAL management is negotiating in public with its pilot group to try to rally support for its pilots give away scope more cheeply.
It wouldn't surprise me if they would be a newer version. The FedEx version--only with seats. New engines, and cockpit. Much like what the 757 update should have been.
Otherwise, it's the same argument for the cancelation of the 737-700's. Why buy an older generation of plane that will be with us for 20 years? Or, we could order them, then indefinitely defer that same order 6 months later. Use 767-300's make much more sense, unless they can't find any.