Originally Posted by
buckleyboy
80 already pointed this out. I, too, want to say that some 90’s are definitely being parked. I was assigned a rotation to take one to SBD last month.
Every now and then sailingfun provides good info. But the odds of him being right are too low for me to ever place a bet on him.
88’s and 90’s have been rotated in and out of the desert for the last 20 years. You need to know if the aircraft is in storage or permanently parked. The current fleet plan does not have any major reduction in MD90 time. We have to many airframes for the fall schedule. You will probably see some A319’s and A320’s going into storage. Does not mean they are parking the fleet.
Aircraft are also placed into storage to balance cycles relative to heavy checks.