Originally Posted by
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I just checked and the 757s are running the thinner routes out to hawai'i right now from LA and Seattle. Why is that? Is it because the 757 holds more people, makes better profit, or has better performance than the 321neos? I rode on an 321neo last winter out to Kauai.
it switched to the ER fleet because they were worried about winds and the fleet was heavily underutilized for the past few months. The NEO is plenty capable of doing it out of LAX/SEA in the peak of winter winds. It handles it just fine. Hell the MAX handled it just fine in the winter and burned slightly more and carried slightly less. But flight ops did the wiser move and used a fleet that was sitting doing nothing on a route they knew it could handle.