Originally Posted by
davessn763
I can’t believe it’s going to be profitable to refurbish and equip 20+ year old 767’s and deal with the reliability headaches for the next decade it takes to really replace them with something new. I pretty much fly the -300’s exclusively now and I’m I’m probably batting .500 for maintenance issue free flights. Why are we buying other people’s junk? Where is the pull with airbus and Boeing that an airline our size should have? Hawaiian replaced those 767’s with shiny new Airbuses, why can’t the “the worlds leading global airline” do the same.
Yes it’s expansion but it sucks watching the coaches f up a game from the bullpen.
Well, I'm guessing refurbished 20 year old aircraft would be a small step up in reliability from 24+ year old aircraft. We have 21 -300s which were built between 1991-1993. I'd be very interested to know if there are significant reliability differences between this group and our newer -300s from 1998 on. I do think we'll see our oldest -300s mostly doing domestic PS/Island service so they are kept close to maintenance.
I still think a few dozen new builds to allow some 756 retirements makes a lot of sense for the right price. But, surprisingly, no one from Willis has asked me.
