Originally Posted by Nosmo King

My guess is if the decision were up to our VP Cargo, we would get a bunch at that price. The other cost question is, how much will we have to spend to modify the cabin and cockpit to DL standards. The good news is that JAL almost always ordered the same options as NW up until they got MD-911s and 777s so they should have the same engines. Another thing to research is that some of the JAL 744s were "domestic." They had no winglets and about 500 seats for flying between Tokyo and Osaka. I got to deadhead on that cattle car a few times. Weird fact: IIRC the fuel penalty for a missing winglet on a 744 is ... zero.