Originally Posted by
Qwerty123
Economics change... He didn't delay any narrowbody order at all. The economics of RJs have changed in the last 5 years. United does have the best hubs, but yeah, they don't have a monopoly on their hubs like AA and DL do. When he was at AA the whole industry was moving away from screens and then DL went all in and forced everyone else to go back.
Things change, not sure what to tell you.
Originally Posted by
C11DCA
Close.
UAL ordered 40 737-700's then did a follow on order of 25...all of those were deferred with the exception of 4 being converted to 737-800's. So 61 deferred and converted to the max, variant unknown. Plus the original 100 max9.
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This guy said he did, and at the time it seemed like it was under to “pretext” that Scott showed up and bailed Oscar out of a bad decision.
Scott does everything with max confidence just like a pilot. His track record is AA though, so somewhat unwarranted confidence.
Maybe dumping the RJ is a good decision, but not because “We have 319s who needs 200s”. He had 319s when he signed those RJs, and was deferring 737s. The comment is just a reflection of his confidence not accuracy.
I think the TA proves it too. They clearly bought into his confidence that this was the best offer. Scott said so, and said it with confidence.