There’s still a lot of broken trips in open time ...
EDVPLT
03-29-2020 05:41 PM
There is ~35 88s flying and 10 90s still flying. The park plan has changed everyday so who knows if they will be flying next month or not.
Flying Monkey
03-30-2020 04:24 AM
Originally Posted by EDVPLT
(Post 3016618)
There is ~35 88s flying and 10 90s still flying. The park plan has changed everyday so who knows if they will be flying next month or not.
And I’m guessing the parked ones are not coming back.
Packrat
03-31-2020 06:43 AM
Originally Posted by EDVPLT
(Post 3016618)
There is ~35 88s flying and 10 90s still flying. The park plan has changed everyday so who knows if they will be flying next month or not.
Looks like the 88 sims will be going with the last jets.
iaflyer
03-31-2020 07:16 AM
Originally Posted by Packrat
(Post 3018255)
Looks like the 88 sims will be going with the last jets.
I wouldn't bet on it unless they need the space. There are other airlines using them for sim time (USA Jet for example). There was a 737-200 sim for a while after the -200s left, if I remember. Or maybe an L-1011. Anyway - unless they sell the sim or need the space, I can't see them getting rid of all of them.
gloopy
03-31-2020 07:25 AM
Originally Posted by iaflyer
(Post 3018306)
I wouldn't bet on it unless they need the space. There are other airlines using them for sim time (USA Jet for example). There was a 737-200 sim for a while after the -200s left, if I remember. Or maybe an L-1011. Anyway - unless they sell the sim or need the space, I can't see them getting rid of all of them.
Also, is it the best course of action to make panicked and essentially irreversible fleet decisions like that this early on?
Instead of at least preserving the option to have an "accumulator" fleet that's basically paid for, let's guarantee we shrink with the only ability to bounce back being new AC that require significant debt and CAPEX at a time we'd be trying to get our legs back underneath us financially.
Any recovery marketsharewe lost that we can't get back will simply be done by someone else. Quite possibly a flurry of pump and dump start ups and if it gets bad enough maybe even cabotage. But hey, as long as the FA's don't get a union we'll rule the world as we shrink to profitability.
