According to the actual deliveries, looks like Boeing will be very near to 20 Max deliveries to United in the first 3 months of 2025. Honestly thats not bad. Pretty well covers all 21 of those 'shocking 1993 built A320 retirements'. On pace to take 30 more A321's in 2025 as well. Carry on with the EICAS/overhead toggle switch discussion.....

 

The airbus weirdos will do anything to derail a good conversation.

Agree with you - lots of new planes, good news in general for the airline.

 

The title of the thread is misleading garbage (as so often happens here). You park airplanes when the economy is in the toilet. Park means long term storage, sometimes they come back when things get better, sometimes they don't.

These airplanes are being retired. That's what you do when they are worn out junk and you have replaced them with new ones. In this case it's even better since there's more new ones than those being parked.

 

This site has not even updated our pay rates well over a year after the new UPA has taken effect. I set my expectations with regards to any additional content accordingly.

 

For sure. I have an FK27 type rating, did all my training/flying in the FK27-MK50 (Fokker 50, pretty much same cockpit as the FK100). Would not be able to even start the engines in a classic 27. Same for DC9/MD80/B717. And that should have applied to the Classic/NG/MAX. Letting SWA (and AA I have heard) push Boeing & FAA to accept commercial interest at the expense of improved safety is the problem. And SWA is absolutely wrong in their resistance to change. Like you said, no AT, and AFAIK, started with 6 pack on the glass, and no VNAV to be closer to the 200. Insane. And now the MAX 7&10 will probably be different from the 8&9, just because B can't get their $#!t together.
Should have done it right the first time and not let MD accountants ruin the company.

Edit: yes the bus IS better, and getting more planes of whatever manufacturer is the best.

 

go look up the LR-JET type rating if you want to see a comical amount of planes under one rating. (23/24/25/28/31/35/36/55)

 

The AFM for the 35/35 was comical as well. You would have differences between groups of serial numbers. Often times non sequential serial numbers. “If you’ve flown one Learjet you’ve flown one Learjet”

 

Or the CE500 type!

 

Have the C525 and the C550.... Plenty of types to fly.

 

Still growing net positive by year end. Anyone see that we just announced resumption of flights to China , 2 from Chicago, one on the 787 and one o 777…wonder if this is grounds for 777 base? I’d think with FRMS for such a route deadheading/overnight in Chicago will be expensive. Thoughts?