Originally Posted by
acl65pilot
Very true, and the upgrades to the 88/90 and 757/767 fleets just became more affordable. We also get another reason for the a ROI.
SSI is the company offering this up $80k per aircraft. Boeing was $900k per aircraft because they own the FMS vnav/ lnav profiles. SSI just interfaces with the FMS and does 62 re-configurations per second and let's the FMS keep it's algorithms. I suspect DAL is a bit nervous that SWA will get to do the quick NEXGEN visuals and DAL will be stuck doing 14 mile finals....