Originally Posted by
captainL
We had the 787 fleet ops manager on our jumpseat last week. He said they have a meeting with boeing in 2 weeks in which they are going to update them on the delivery status. He said they think they will have deliveries starting early 2012 but at a faster rate then originally...if we where willing to take them faster.
So the captain and I speculated that the system bid was delayed for the 787 update. Ok there is my contribution to rumors.
From a chief pilot who briefed my recurrent training class, CAL moved up the delivery line when openings became available a couple of years ago. He said we will get #35 off the 787 line and after. His comment was, "Continental will not take any planes earlier than that so Boeing and other operators can work out any kinks before we put ours into revenue service." Direct quote. I have no idea what a faster rate of delivery might do to their plans of letting other work out the problems.