Originally Posted by
Hummel75
The NEO’s will be delivered with ETOPs certification. Using them on transcons only would expire that cert and it’s expensive to recertify. ORCA won’t happen quickly because there are no PBCF numbers. Island fuel it is, so pacific is the probable plan.
Not having PBCF numbers will not slow the ORCA flying ramp up. We will just dispatch with a Redispatch point and airport. What will slow the ramp up will be getting the ETOPs proving runs done and folks trans-alt qualed…