Highlights from a reporter who listened to UA's Employee Town Hall yesterday (note, how does this guy get to listen to employee-only Town Halls?)
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/unite...233553523.html
United is taking a similar wait-and-see approach on aircraft and has not made plans to permanently ground any fleet type, Kirby said. Still, he said the cramped CRJ-200s and Embraer E145s, which fly as United Express, likely won’t stick around long.
“My guess the 50 seaters mostly will be gone, by the end of this,” he said.
Other fleet types may not come back either. If recovery does not come soon, United’s Boeing 757s would go first, Kirby said, followed by the Boeing 767s that the airline mainly flies to Europe. Many 767s recently received new business class cabins, but some date back to the early 1990s.
“That’s not an easy decision to make because the 767s in particular have been a great airplane,” Kirby said.
Next, United would retire Airbus A319s and A320s delivered in the 1990s, Kirby said. United has expected to retain those airplanes and use new Boeing 737 Max jets, a similar-sized airplane, to grow the fleet. But in a scenario where demand takes time to return, the Airbus jets would go away, while Max deliveries continued.
“We still have a large order book for 737 Maxes and it’s right to assume at some point the Max is going to return to service,” Kirby said.
Doesn't seem to be too many surprises, given the age of some of the oldest tails in the 767, 767, and Airbus fleets.
Right now, the following aircraft are "stored" at Roswell NM (pulled from
https://www.airliners.net/forum/view...?f=3&t=1437915). Note the entire P&W 757-200 fleet is there. Given the age of the fleet, seems likely they won't ever return.
The rest of the fleet that's not actively flying seems to be parked at various domestic line stations across the network. Guessing those aircraft are being put into service periodically to spread hours and cycles around the fleet. I'd assume as aircraft come due for heavy check they'll be put into long-term storage.
ROW Roswell, NM
319: N837UA, N838UA
320: N447UA, N338UA
738: N25201, N73291
739: N72405, N37434
752: N502UA, N512UA, N568UA, N587UA, N588UA, N589UA, N590UA, N595UA, N596UA, N597UA, N598UA, N14118, N18119 (the entire 752 PW fleet)
753: N77867
763: N641UA, N644UA, N649UA, N661UA
764: N66051, N67052, N59053, N76054, N76055, N66056, N66057, N67058, N78060, N68061, N76062, N69063, N76064, N76065, N77066 (the entire fleet except N69059 in HKG maintenance)
772: N768UA, N222UA, N219UA, N220UA, N221UA, N216UA, N227UA, N228UA, N786UA, N791UA, N799UA