Originally Posted by
Airhoss
Why do you “highly” doubt the 321 will do Hawaii?
This company is cheap. They won’t even buy SATCOM / CPDLC for the MAXs, why would they spend millions ETOPSing a new fleet just for Hawaii when the 737 and 777 already fly there? And send all those pilots back to the school house?
the NEOs will fly the 757 BOS/EWR transcons. The XLR will go to Europe and they will only have to ETOPS one fleet and one base of pilots. The Hawaii flying will be easily absorbed by additional MAXs.
I hope I’m wrong but that’s how I see it going down.