Parking Planes
03-12-2025 | 06:34 AM
#31
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From: 787 FO
We have hundreds of older planes with heavy maintenance bills and if the juice isn’t worth the squeeze they are flown to the desert. Great that the company has options and hopefully knows when to pull the trigger on losing investments but they will park your peers with the same cold financial calculation.
03-12-2025 | 10:32 AM
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From: 18%er but I’ll enforce UPA23 to the last period.
Specifically the XLR's for the 752's. I think the 753 will stick around longer by 2-3 years. Of course that is probably contingent on how long the 764s stick around as well. I expect EWR will be the last 756 base standing.
03-12-2025 | 11:03 AM
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From: Cramped 737 Left Seat
03-12-2025 | 12:52 PM
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03-12-2025 | 01:35 PM
#35
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My favorite airplanes after the 777 and 757 it’s the Max-8, it truly does fly great, great handling over all.
I m sure im not the only one that enjoys flying it.
Never liked the 900s though
03-12-2025 | 01:48 PM
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From: Aircraft & Seat: old & hard
As a longtime boeing pilot, I can’t say I blame you. The frankenguppy(max) has been such an embarrassment for them, and honestly, they should have shut down new variants after the -800’s. Now we’ve got another issue with potential smoke in the cabin/cockpit while dealing with an engine failure. And like MCAS, weren’t even told this is a potential issue. It was only after SWA had a couple incidences that they sheepishly acknowledged the LRD system. Boeing no longer is associated with quality. Sad.
03-12-2025 | 01:50 PM
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From: Cramped 737 Left Seat
Yeah, the -900 is a handful. And the "ER" stands for Entire Runway!! 😜
03-12-2025 | 01:52 PM
#38
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From: It's a plane and it's a seat
03-12-2025 | 04:27 PM
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From: 737 Captain
about a year ago I had a fantastic layover in CID. Great location, and hotel but was a super-shorty and the drive wasn’t exactly quick. Oh well.
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