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ACL noticed on a China aircraft sales site for 12 MD-90's. what's up with the MD90 deal and two other ? Jfk terminal status and when will summer 2010 int'l scjedules be released' Thx

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Originally Posted by KC10 FATboy (Post 686089)

I somewhat agree with you. We are different than SWA; however, we still have a domestic product. And although the domestic air travel has been reduced to "the bus" mentality, we can't forget that it is the domestic passenger that fills our airplanes and makes the international hub and spoke design profitable. We can't ignore that the SWAs and jetBlues have been eating away the low hanging fruit and slowly taking market share away from the legacies. Without our domestic passengers, our international system isn't viable.

Quite true, and farming all of that flying out will be our Achilles heel as a airline. Passenger will deal with DCI to a large extent, but putting them on more routes will drive people away.
Flew on a MEC Connect RJET a few weeks ago and man did the people complain. Also the jets are not full. Not even close. Passengers are getting picky.

On a side note saw two DAL 757's land in MKE waiting to take off. Now that is progress!

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Originally Posted by firstmob (Post 686092)

ACL noticed on a China aircraft sales site for 12 MD-90's. what's up with the MD90 deal and two other ? Jfk terminal status and when will summer 2010 int'l schedules be released' Thx

China is being difficult with us, but they know how to negotiate. Problem is we will walk if they continue to be stubborn.

Summer 2010 schedule will not be firm for a few months. All we have now is a projection and they are near this last summer schedules.

nevermind...................

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Originally Posted by firstmob (Post 686092)

ACL noticed on a China aircraft sales site for 12 MD-90's. what's up with the MD90 deal and two other ? Jfk terminal status and when will summer 2010 int'l scjedules be released' Thx

And the plot thickens. Would there be enough MD-90s out in the system to replace the MD-88s?

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Originally Posted by Sink r8 (Post 686173)

forget it...

MEC= MEH (ACL typo)= Midex..... not our master executive council.

I think I saw a NWA DC-10 in MKE once. So get the 753 and 763 in there. :)

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Originally Posted by forgot to bid (Post 686187)

I think I saw a NWA DC-10 in MKE once. So get the 753 and 763 in there. :)

A few years ago, NWA ran 753's into MKE frequently. It was part of the "kill midex" campaign back then- they expanded MKE in a similar manner to the current IND operation and ran lots of point to point operations. I think it was the 3rd or 4th attempt of the like.

It didn't work.... so they bought them- and you get what you see today.

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Originally Posted by KC10 FATboy (Post 686178)

And the plot thickens. Would there be enough MD-90s out in the system to replace the MD-88s?

Unlikely. Only about 100 worldwide.