Originally Posted by
Gone Flying
UA was the biggest airline to Europe last summer by seats scheduled, so we don’t even lead across the Atlantic, and one glance at our Asia/ Australia/ South America route structure shows there is definitely room for growth in those markets. Throw in 65 767s that are all 20-30 years old and 32 330s not much younger and I don’t think we are as far ahead on the WB deliveries as you seem to think we are.
And that's what it is....."a glance" at our age route structure. Reality is different, our Asia loads suck, I know, I fly those routes. And as far as Australia/NZ goes we have a ton of competition there. I would not be surprised if NZ fails as did Tahiti. South America is generally low yield as is India. And as being far ahead, I get your point that we are not, but my point is these will be replacement aircraft. 763's will be replaced by 330s. Some existing 330 routes will shift to 350. And they won't be coming any time soon. I don't see much growth potential internationally. My comment about being Europe sewn up wasn't the fact that we are the biggest it's just that our route structure is fully fleshed out. That would be a better way of putting it. If we expand internationally, what specific cities would we target?