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Parking Planes
https://airlinegeeks.com/2025/03/11/united-to-retire-aircraft-amid-capacity-cuts/
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a good rumor what fleet? my money is on older Airbus or those nasty 737-900 |
Originally Posted by dingdong
(Post 3891476)
a good rumor what fleet?[/QUOTE] Have a feeling there is a lot more of this coming. Domeatic travel going to crap very fast. |
Let's see, United accepted 57 new aircraft last year and retired one thirty-one year old A320. With 40 other over thirty year old aircraft in the fleet and new aircraft inbound, the thought that they may be retiring 21 aircraft this year doesn't sound particularly surprising.
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[QUOTE=list;3891443]https://airlinegeeks.com/2025/03/11/...capacity-cuts/[/QUOTE]
I so desperately want to start a new account under the username “Pipewoman”, but I’ll be good. |
[QUOTE=list;3891443]https://airlinegeeks.com/2025/03/11/united-to-retire-aircraft-amid-capacity-cuts/[/QUOTE]
The article is clickbait junk. First, we retired a dozen 320s last year. (https://sites.google.com/site/united...nline-aircraft). Second, the 21 Jan 2025 Invstor Update available on our Investor Relations web page shows our 2025 fleet plan with... twenty aircraft retirements (all geriatric 320s). What the article doesn't mention is that a a couple of years ago we had four widebody retirements expected this year... now none (Thanks Boeing). And our narrowbody fleet is still going to grow this year. Perhaps I should become an AvGeeks reporter. |
Originally Posted by Excargodog
(Post 3891494)
United accepted 57 new aircraft last year and retired one thirty-one year old A320.
Originally Posted by Excargodog
(Post 3891494)
...retiring 21 aircraft this year doesn't sound particularly surprising.
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Originally Posted by jerryleber
(Post 3891509)
In 2024 UA accepted 61 new aircraft and retired 12 A320s.
It appears the 20 planned A320 retirements for 2025 were moved up from the fall to ASAP while taking that capacity out of underperforming markets including all-nighters which is nice for junior crew. In Unity... |
Originally Posted by CLazarus
(Post 3891504)
airlinegeeks.com/2025/03/11/united-to-retire-aircraft-amid-capacity-cuts/
The article is clickbait junk. First, we retired a dozen 320s last year. (https://sites.google.com/site/united...nline-aircraft). Second, the 21 Jan 2025 Invstor Update available on our Investor Relations web page shows our 2025 fleet plan with... twenty aircraft retirements (all geriatric 320s). What the article doesn't mention is that a a couple of years ago we had four widebody retirements expected this year... now none (Thanks Boeing). And our narrowbody fleet is still going to grow this year. Perhaps I should become an AvGeeks reporter. Another fine piece of AI journalism? |
If you're in the bottom 50% of any airline list I would be very nervous. If things keep going like they are we'll be talking about more than just Spirit going bankrupt.
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