Originally Posted by
Avgeek7248
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.
Not always. Kicked 40 revenue pax off a SEA-KOA flight in January due to winds. Next day they did a fuel stop in SFO. 757 would have handled it just fine.
As for sitting idle take a look at SEA 320 for February. Half the dang base is on reserve and block hours are more than doubling from Feb to March because Hawaii is coming back.
As a serial reserve bidder, no complaints here at all
. But let’s not pretend the NEO can’t have issues in the winter, I’ve seen it first hand.