Originally Posted by
catIIIc
I still think the A350 is coming it’s a perfect aircraft to start replace the 200Er’s in a few years. Right now the 777x is to much airplane and expensive. The company said as much last year at a conference. Now Boeing may hit it out the park with the 797 and we could order a bunch of 797’s and 787’s to replace those 777’s but that still is a ways away.
The 787s will be replacing the 772s and there are very few routes that need the 77Xs, but buying a few of them rather than 45 359s saves the relatively huge expense of adding a whole new fleet. Kirby puts the odds of taking the 359s at only 20%.