Originally Posted by
AAL24
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.
This is the doomsday scenario but it feels right without a major management philosophy shift (which scapegoating Vasu didn't accomplish). They will order 787-10s to replace 777-200s because they are equivalent to beancounters in the same way XLRs are to 757s. They insist cargo doesn't make money.
That orphans the small 777-300ER fleet so they wind that down and park them. Hopefully something less disappointing than this happens. I want to be positive on the future of the company and I want to retire a widebody captain. But they need to demonstrate that they care about serious growth in that space and they absolutely have not at this point.