Originally Posted by 82spukram

Why does everyone assume this is cancel one order to make a new one. Let’s just assume that Airbus can get 10-15 A321 deliveries over the next 5 years by customers who might have been looking to rework a delivery timeframe and now they can get paid for it. That’s 50-75 A321. You don’t cancel the the Max’s. You just sub out for 8’s and 9’s. The rest of the growth plan relies on keeping and doing costly maintenance on older 767,757,737, 320, and 319 until the order book catches up with the next plan. Boeing will more than likely offset the cost to keep airplanes flying via a better deal on the new airplanes. As far 350 and 330’s I would be unbelievably happy if we got them but reality is hard to get past. Adding 2 fleets types is a big expense and manpower positive for pilots but that’s a huge negative for management. The current plan of 4 fleet types (787,777,737,320) is very cost effective. The 10 day transition between 777 and 787 is huge. I think everyone expects SK to stick it to Boeing. I don’t think that will happen. Just shuffling some deck chairs and the extra aircraft that will be on the order book will just replace older airframes as they come up on the next heavy check.