Originally Posted by
tunes
i was also sitting in the room when the head of network said they hated the 350 then a month later they did the LATAM deal. The ERs aren't going anywhere for a while.
Again, yes. The ERs aren't leaving the fleet, yet. The plan was to shift them to domestic long haul, or high volume, and given last summer's redline operation moving them into the US domestic market sooner makes sense. Domestic flying requires fewer copilots due to no augmented crews.