State of the Airline
10-29-2025 | 08:59 AM
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There are only 50 A320s, and the 737 can easily replace them. The 320 is ****, it doesn't have the range or performance of the 319 and none of the payload of the 321, it really is bad at being both. There is a reason why it's just used like a city bus to haul people between Florida and the rest of the east coast.
10-29-2025 | 10:28 AM
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10-29-2025 | 01:25 PM
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By that logic would you say that pursuing the NEA was the wrong move? It was initially approved before a change in administration reversed that.
10-29-2025 | 04:10 PM
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How much money do we make from Alaska being Oneworld? I'm glad they aren't Skyteam or Star Alliance. Denying the competition is good strategy but you can't win by only doing that. You have to grow earnings organically.
10-29-2025 | 05:06 PM
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The right move would have been to feed international with our own lift. Isn't that what Delta and United do? This game is so much easier when you have two examples of best practices to follow, just copy them.
How much money do we make from Alaska being Oneworld? I'm glad they aren't Skyteam or Star Alliance. Denying the competition is good strategy but you can't win by only doing that. You have to grow earnings organically.
How much money do we make from Alaska being Oneworld? I'm glad they aren't Skyteam or Star Alliance. Denying the competition is good strategy but you can't win by only doing that. You have to grow earnings organically.
10-29-2025 | 05:24 PM
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well we need more main cabin extra seats and not serve absolute dog slop in the admirals clubs. Oh yeah, a couple dozen more wide body airplanes would help too. And not tiny 788 sized ones either.
10-29-2025 | 06:30 PM
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It is amazing how on everything but the 321s and wide-bodies, main cabin extra is 1-2 rows plus the exits. It should be half the airplane.
10-29-2025 | 08:01 PM
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A220-300 would not be a good replacement for the A320. It would be an A319 replacement. The much rumored A220-500 would be the A320 equivalent.
I maintain the 350 is the best long term move management can make as it provides a replacement for our entire 777 fleet down the road if they don't have the stomach for the 777-9. 350 can replace the 200 and 300's. But current management will likely just go with the 787-10 and orphan the 300's to their doom.
I maintain the 350 is the best long term move management can make as it provides a replacement for our entire 777 fleet down the road if they don't have the stomach for the 777-9. 350 can replace the 200 and 300's. But current management will likely just go with the 787-10 and orphan the 300's to their doom.
I think the 787-10 is a far more logical successor to the 777-200, assuming AA can stomach sacrificing the ~900-1000 mi in range, and the 777-300s are so much younger I doubt they’d consider the 350 from a long-term fleet planning standpoint. That would require a “next 100 years” kind of forward thinking.
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