Originally Posted by
Excargodog
You are conveniently avoiding answering the question or dealing with the real issue, which was fleet efficiency. The posting touted narrowbody fleet efficiency, and while I will concede you aren’t in any way responsible for Boeings 737 and 787 problems, that is currently a side issue.
Right now F9 has over 70% NEOs:
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Spirit had these numbers as of Sep 2021 and has added NEOs since and will add 24 more this year.
As NK retires 319s and adds 320/321 NEOs their percentage of newer and more fuel efficient aircraft will continue to rise.
The original assertion was that AA had a newer and more fuel efficient NB fleet than anybody else. That statement is demonstrably not true. I NEVER MADE the straw man argument that AA “doesn’t or won’t have a fuel efficient fleet,” merely that their were others with newer and more fuel efficient fleets. AA holds no real advantage over others in this regard.
You’d have to bake in how many block hours AA operates under 1 hour in cruise. If they have 9 hubs, you could throw out any city pair that is 250 miles or under.
A real comparison is not the percentage of the fleet that is MAX or NEO, but total monthly block hours operated with them.
If Frontier is putting up 100,000 block hours a month with fuel efficient aircraft, and AA is also putting up 100,000 block hours with the same planes then they are not at any competitive disadvantage.