Originally Posted by
jtf560
One of the first things Sokol said when they came out with the 10 year plans was that they would retire airplanes at 10 years. That still hasn't happened 10 years later. We will likely have XLSs over 15 years old by the time they are finally all gone. There are probably a bunch of 15 year Excels flying around now. The Falcons that just finally retired were somewhere around 20 years old. I believe they would like to be able to have a real 10 year cycle on the airframes, but I don't believe they will be able to achieve that. It is too hard to get rid of old airframes at a return they deem reasonable unless part of the business model is to acccept much less than they accept now for used airframes. I'm not sure pennies on the dollar at year 10 to dispose is better than lower mx reliability while stretching the life out. I guess we will see and I do hope you are right, I just don't think it will truly happen.
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Sokol was also looking at taking us way below 400 jets and using EJM more.
That didn’t happen either. Thankfully.
The Longitude will speed retirement of remaining X’s and Sovereigns.
The Lat has got the number of every single remaining XL/XLS. Give it a bit... that spigot is wide open and driving NJA to 500+ frames.
Much better than Sokol’s plan, wouldn’t you agree?