LeeFXDWG

[QUOTE=horrido27;3532699]Just to throw it out there- but..
those 75 replacement 321’s aren’t coming next year. Last word I’ve heard is they are pushed back towards late ‘24.
Hopefully at the next investor conference someone from our leadership gets that question “when are the A321’s coming and are they a direct B757 replacement”?
I still believe that by 2024 we will see an Airbus base at BOS..

Many think that when the company announces the new base(s), they have to happen simultaneously, immediately.
I wouldn’t be surprised if they announced a few with another in the waiting room.. and one opening in the new year, the next one a few months later.

Guess we’ll know soon.

Till then, all we can do is deal with our current bases, contract and fleet!

Always
Motch

ps) just to add..
https://onemileatatime.com/news/united-a321xlr-polaris-premium-plus/[/QUOTE]

Had SKirby on my flight DFW-ORD two days ago. He came up to the cockpit to chat which was fine. Kept the conversation cordial while wearing my contract first, United next bling. He said 321 NEO summer of 23. WB order pending.

That and 5 bucks gets you a Starbucks in the terminal….

To the question on Bus vice Guppy. Bus all the way. Waited too long to switch back. Granted, seniority plays a role but I usually do 2 legs a day and stay domestic. And the office……priceless.

GPullR

Had SKirby on my flight DFW-ORD two days ago. He came up to the cockpit to chat which was fine. Kept the conversation cordial while wearing my contract first, United next bling. He said 321 NEO summer of 23. WB order pending.

That and 5 bucks gets you a Starbucks in the terminal….

To the question on Bus vice Guppy. Bus all the way. Waited too long to switch back. Granted, seniority plays a role but I usually do 2 legs a day and stay domestic. And the office……priceless.[/QUOTE]


Been addressed many times. 321 neo showing up late July early August. A month or 2 proving runs. Lucky to see it online before 2024.

idlethrust

As a newbie to UAL, I gotta ask , who the hell is Motch ?? He seems to know everything about everything.

horrido27

Ok, I'll Bite!
LOL

Just a pilot who reads alot of different Aviation Publications, and likes to put the tea leaves together.
Someone who gets it wrong sometimes but more that usual, leans towards being on the righter side.. except today when I expected the boys to beat Japan. ;(

I (along with many others) want to see the 321's show up. But when you read things coming from Airbus, engine suppliers, our own management team.. hard to buy that we will be flying A321Neo's in the summer of '23.
And as it's been mentioned before-
https://www.forbes.com/sites/michael...ion%20aircraft.

and
https://www.airbus.com/en/newsroom/p...21neo-aircraft

We SHOULD see them on line here at some point.. But there use to be an old "union" line that basically stated,
"Until the plane is sitting at the gate in our colors, I'll believe it when I see it"

Till then, Fly Safe-Fly Professionally and Fly the Contract
Always
Motch

C11DCA

10 hours in a narrowbody isn't any worse then the 777 with 10 across.

The PW757 a POS? It did just fine for the missions at UAL it was planned for. Domestic, Transcons and Hawaii. And TWA and Delta (including former TWA 757’s they aquired) flew PW 757’s across the Atlantic so it was hardly exclusive to RR 757’s.

Again, what do you consider to be performance? Speed? Runway and Climb capability? Range? Fuel Burn? Something else? Because the 757 has better performance in some aspects, and worse in others compared to the XLR.

last i’ll comment because its a drift from the main topic.

Gooch

767 driver here, it’s Turkey day eve. Can we bring the thread back to class drops and get hobbies outside of aviation? Who cares about mmo etc, we’re all light twins compared to the whale.

TangoIndiaMike1

From job offer to class date what’s the time frame?

Otterbox

Buddy just went through the process. About 8 weeks CJO to class.

Brickfire

Potentially a tad longer atm. Only two December classes

Drdoback1

11/4 CJO. Still waiting on class date.