Originally Posted by
MinimumEffort
Yes or at the very least a 1 for 1 replacement.
They are investing money in the 777s to keep them going longer and the rest of the 787s will all be here in within the next 5 years. You think they will shrink the fleet in 10 years when between now and then they will have to find flying for the planes we have, the ones they are getting and the 777s they are keeping? That would be growth and then contraction if they shrunk the large WB fleet in 10 years.
I hope you're right. The 777X would be sweet. From what I've seen of Isom I would expect him just to order a few more 787s and more XLRs. Shrink the total Group IV airframes and increase the 321XLR fleet to pick up the slack. Then they could offload whatever they can't fly to JV partners. We don't have eny scope requiring growth flying to be done by AA.