Originally Posted by
snackysmores
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.
so it makes sense to equip the entire 737 fleet as ETOPs but not the 321’s? The percentage of ETOPs flights the 737 does is a small percentage of its overall usage. And it won’t be just Hawaii. Carribbean flying too. 200 seats on the Neo’s. The extra seats means bigger potential profits compared to the 737. Will it being doing hub to hub and transcons? Sure. But there many places it can and will go.
the number of XLR’s is planned to be 50, more then the number of 757-200’s we have. Not all of those will be flying in one hub. And getting pilots to/from another hub via DH or W flying is not cheap nor efficient for the company.