No they did not place an order. However, to believe that this is the "first" time the company and the manufacturers are entering into talks would be extremely naive. Much like the auto industry, the airframe manufacturers are in search of orders. This buying in the trough and taking delivery in the peak is a good strategy and hopefully we will see the airplanes on the ramp at some point.

At this point in time I don't think there are any other major US carriers with bids on 150 airplane orders? Certainly not CAL. This will hopefully be a all encompassing change for UAL and perhaps set some new standards for mainline flying in the future with a narrowbody refreshment coming afterwards.

Perhaps this is my misconstrued concept, but at UAL we have had some large sine curves in the past few years of bad and good news. In fact the dips probably out pace the peaks. Why is it impossible to enjoy the moment and perhaps think positively about our future for 5 minutes without be cast upon by those that think all good news is wrapped in bad.

I would think anyone that is at CAL could appreciate a turnaround. Look at the history of CAL and there are some signifcant close calls with extinction. The right leadership was able to correct what was one of the worse carriers in existence. Good for you guys climbing out of the grave. Why not allow someone else to do the same?

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