Originally Posted by Gulfasaurus

Stop! I can only get so turned on! [Insert Archer meme]

Seeing how I've been hearing that we're getting speed tapes when transiting through the school house for the past two years now, each time with a more convinced "really, we're actually going to start the retrofits this time!", I don't have much hope of them ever doing any major upgrades. At least now they have the panel posters with a speed tape on the walls of the sim briefing rooms so they must be serious about it.

I expect the ER category to become a pure 757 category once the final 767-300s are retired. Domestic/CUN/MEX/Caribbean and the special qual airports in Central and South America that nothing else can do with the same payload capacity and range. The other question will be what happens when the charter contract expires. Right now it seems to be going slightly more senior in the last few AEs than the rest of the narrowbodies on the A side. Makes sense, the trips improved quite a bit since the contract, although it could just be the winter drawdown that seems to hit the fleet more than others on average. I'm curious to see what the summer flying will look like post contract. As it starts trending more towards mostly a domestic 757 category, I expect its seniority to fall back in line with the other narrowbodies.