I was told that this week at the LCP meeting RA said precisely that. We have to get the aircraft manufacturers to compete. Kinda like going into your Ford dealership and declaring you only buy Fords - their reason for negotiation just went way down.

I'm frankly shocked that we're not getting more movement out of Boeing. You'd think they would want to keep the World's second largest airline as a customer especially after the abortion they're calling the 787. Of course, that would require the same company that thought global outsourcing was a good idea to recognize that customer service matters.