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They've got to be cheap to buy? So many pilots already trained! 4 ENGINES! 4 SETS OF PROPS! What's not to love?

727C47

saw one in Leipzig last tour, flying for Atlantic Cargo out of Blighty,still looks slick !!!

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I will say this is nice a nice feature of the new Boeings...



Takes your mind off the pain you feel sitting in the middle seat or looking out the window on takeoff and noticing those black and white airport signs that say 12... 11... 10... 9... 8... 7... 6... 5... 4... 3... 2... "when are we going to takeoff?" 1... "What happens when it gets to zero?"

gloopy

So do we issue fish eye glasses at the gate and collect them in a bin at the destination jetbridge like 3-D glasses at the movies?

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When we open a DTW 737 base and a passenger flies one out of B they're going to get to go walking through the Jerry Garcia memorial walkway and then sit through the Pink Floyd laser light ceiling show.


They're going to be so mellow upon arrival.

dragon

Perhaps the way to really mellow them out would be to pipe in Jerry Garcia's favorite herb smoke and then they won't notice the sardine can and we can also make a killing selling chips and other munchies!

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Boeing Board Weighs 737 Upgrade Next Week
By Susanna Ray
August 27, 2011 15:06 EDT
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(Corrects ninth paragraph of story published Aug. 26 to remove outlook for conversions of existing 737 orders.)

Boeing Co. (BA) has customers lined up for an upgrade of its best-selling 737 with more fuel-efficient engines as it awaits board approval for the project as soon as Aug. 29, the planemaker’s business-development chief said.

Demand should be similar to that for the new A320neo from Airbus SAS, Nicole Piasecki said today in an interview. Airbus decided in December to update its single-aisle jet with new engines and racked up more than 1,000 orders and commitments within seven months as airlines scrambled for production slots.

“We’re heavily engaged with customers across the world right now who are excited about the product,” Piasecki said. “A lot of our customers are going to want to get access to it as fast as possible. That dynamic will exist for us in the same way it existed for Airbus.”

Boeing’s board is scheduled to meet Aug. 28 and 29 in Chicago, the corporate headquarters, and will consider management’s decision last month to offer new engines on the 737 rather than wait to develop an all-new single-aisle plane that wouldn’t be ready until the end of the decade.
The redesigned 737 would officially be launched this fall and enter service mid-decade. Airbus plans to start delivering its neo in 2015.

American Order
The 737 upgrade makes up half of the 200-jet order Boeing won from American Airlines in late July. The Fort Worth, Texas- based carrier split its purchase of 460 aircraft between the U.S. company and Airbus. That broke American’s exclusive arrangement with Boeing since 1987, compelling the planemaker to shift from its stated preference for an all-new jet.

Piasecki said Boeing is still working with carriers on changes to the 737, the world’s most widely flown plane. The only engine option will be the Leap-X from CFM International, a partnership of Safran SA and General Electric Co. (GE)

Engineers have been trying to devise an engine-fan size for the new 737 that will be bigger than the current ones, to reduce fuel consumption, while still small enough to minimize changes to the plane’s fuselage, which sits low to the ground.

Boeing still expects to sell more of its current 737s, though it also will work with customers should they want to convert their orders into contracts for the model with new engines, she said. Boeing beat Airbus this week for an order for 100 737-900ERs from Delta Air Lines Inc.
Boeing climbed $1.70, or 2.8 percent, to $62.80 at 4:15 p.m. in New York Stock Exchange composite trading, the largest increase on the Dow Jones Industrial Average.

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Also...

Boeing Co. (BA) is replacing its commercial-jet sales chief, Marlin Dailey, a month after rival Airbus SAS made inroads into one of the U.S. planemaker’s top customers, American Airlines, a person familiar with the matter said.

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If you were to make an assumption and say that mainline airliners will last 30 years and regionals 20 years, then here is where our fleet would retire by just adding 30 years and 20 years to their born on date.

As you see, the DC95 has outlasted this assumed retirement point, that's because, it's the DC9. But you can see all the 752s and the domestic 763s that start to hit their retirement point. If A320s are in that mix then they will not be making the 30 year point, I assume.

slowplay

I think some of the original 8 1989 model A320's parked have already been cut up for parts. They were worth way more that way. Same was true for the earliest 757's whose picture you posted earlier.