They’re painting several per month now

Ah. Thanks. So you guys are keeping them? What about being "all Boeing"?

"Proudly Slightly Majority Boeing"

They are half painting them, not bothering with the wings, and there has been no announcement regarding the airbus future but I think most expect them to be gone over the next few years.

I wouldn’t be so sure about this. I don’t think they have any time frame on when to get rid of the Airbus. They just renewed the 319 leases as an example. They will get rid of them when there is a recession or some sort of downturn and they can’t fill airplanes assuming the leases are set to expire. I think they enjoy the flexibility of having the option to keep them or dump them when the leases are up depending on what the economy is doing or how well the competition is destroying us.

Plus the next merger will likely be with an Airbus operator. 😉

I've heard this numerous times from many pilots. Is this really true? Or just a rumor? How would we even know if a lease was renewed on an A319?

This is what Alaska will do.

1) Park all the Airbusses and replace them with Boeing.
2) Overpay (again) for another airline that is a 100% Airbus airline.
3) Park all those Airbusses and replace them with Boeing.

You forgot one:

4) Close jetBlue's JFK base

Proudly Mostly SkyWest

Publicly traded company, that kind of thing would probably have to be disclosed eventually, if necessarily not the day it happened.

Those 319 leases are valuable. We want/need more 319s, but Airbus wants the assembly lines cranking out mostly 321s, so they’re hard to get negotiated/delivered. We were set to get a bunch of 319s from Frontier, but the deal fell through, I don’t know why. American is still looking though.

What kind of healthcare plans do you guys get? Heard The Cooch say he was coming after them.

Proudly flying, sometimes, Boeing....

Ouch!!!!!!!

AA got some Frontier 319's. I think around 10.

First it was 8 airplanes, then 10, then last month 3, but........... heard a couple weeks ago it fell through.

Bwahahahahahaha. 😂🤣😂🤣😂

😢

Straight from Isom's mouth in crew news. Not sure what other rumors there are.

United has 40 used 319s coming from EasyJet and Southern Air China and actively negotiating for more.

Ben Already set up for his next job!
 

Hey, I may be a low information voter but is anyone aware of this. Not sure this is the thread but seen as how we are getting bought!! (dreamer here) I thought is was a good place for it.


https://www.businesswire.com/news/ho...-Ben-Minicucci

Gotta have a side business.

This is just easy money for doing jack squat.

Maybe I should start watching crew news again! I used to look forward to them, but this place has turned into such a $@ck show I quit.