Originally Posted by
crewdawg
it's been 5 or 6 years, so it may have changed, but a UAL buddy was interested so we ran the numbers and it certainly wasn't FAR more. When you account for the fact that many of their 76 Captains almost never fly the 764, we only had about 50 fewer WB Captains than UAL. Id guess it's due to 1/3 ratio and the fact that they use their WBs a lot more on domestic routes. Of course they had a lot more WB FOs.
Yeah, it's tough to actually count because of the difference between 7ER and 756. If I could be bothered to get a copy of their category list, I'd probably just compare 787/777 to 330/350. The 767 count is more important from the standpoint of replacement. There's no NMA, so they can only be replaced with 787s and 330s respectively. I think UA probably replaces them faster while we get inadvertent growth. They seem to buy a replacement and retire the old plane while we tend to buy a replacement and then, network comes up with something else they want to do with the old plane until a black swan hits.