You and Gloopy are both right, I overstated with “all Airbus”. I expect the 739s to be around for a long time with the 738s to be mid range “shock absorbers”. The 7ER will fluctuate, sticking around until a combo of replacements is acquired.

Same thing with the 717 on the low end. It was low hanging fruit to park in a hurry, but they’ll be easy to spin back up especially if they need to AE UNAs into them in a hurry, it won’t have a cascade effect as it’s a junior fleet.

The MDs were obviously being prepared to be parked, stuck around longer than planned only due to stronger demand than expected (they didn’t see that coming [emoji849]). Easy decision to retire.

I don’t think the 777s were much of a surprise once the orders for A350s got to 30+. If demand had stayed very strong they may have kept them, but now I bet they can get (order) any wide body they want for really cheap and I’m sure negotiations are ongoing about that as we speak.