Who cares what he wears? I expect a millionaire to look like a million bucks.
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It's his direction to circumvent scope and ignore SIL's while threatening furlough that has me chapped.

Last I heard we still own all the 777's. Brand new interior and upgrades on the computers included. Sure would be nice to bring back the LR version. 10 of those would take care of all the flying the 350 can't do.

not that I think the 777 is coming back, but If it did I could see an ATL/JFK base or just JFK. Unless we need the lift faster than airbus can build a350s, I really don’t think it will be worth it to bring them back.

Can’t see the 777 coming back over additional 350s. Sure the 777 can take a better payload out of JNB, but I would very strongly suspect the cost of a niche 777 exceeds any potential revenue forfeited if the 350 has to take a payload hit. Never even sat in the 350, but I’d be curious how the most recent ones with the bumped up MTOW fare.

Have we actually taken delivery of these 350's with increased MTOW? Understand even those still can not fly from JNB nonstop to ATL. Need to stop in Cape Town for refuel and crew swap. Who would fly 20 plus hours doing that when they can fly nonstop on another airline.

We have....but even with the increased MTOW, they are far short of the range that the B777LR had (as in BOM-ATL blocked at 18 hours....with a full cabin).

i wonder if we could talk airbus into an actual 350-900ULR with the -1000 landing gear, wing, and MTOW; rather than just replacing weight from pax with extra gas.

Airbus would say “buy the -1000”. Qantas seems to think it’ll do LHR-SYD nonstop.

Remember though, the ULR only has 163 seats and a deactivated fwd cargo compartment. That's a long ways away from our current 306 pax config with both cargo compartments available.

350’s can be had quite fast at the moment. That may change as the worldwide recovery progresses.