On a 21 hours SNA layover. Great Fish tacos at Rubios. B756. Back to Seward today!

 

I believe the original comment was that the 800/900s weren't the pos's they are. I can't even start to count the times that my CAL Capt has stated that 737 was NOT the right acft for the airport we were at.

 

It doesn't matter what any of us want to fly where you want to fly it unless you have the ability to bid it (soon I hope). There are a lot of planes that shouldn't be where they are. The real reason is that the old 757s were decided to be eliminated because it is too much. The cost to do major phase type overhauls and make them a workable product was above the cost threshold set by higher. Mgmt was a little surprised at the total maintenance cost this merger has incurred. We are also in love with fuel savings at a bit of detriment to our fleets. We are trying to preserve capital or the short term and some appear to not think in the long term. Same fatalistic view on 747 but its deemed a gas hog. Hopefully demand keeps getting higher and we may be forced to keep some longer and our financial plan could change for the better.

 

I can....maybe Quito, Bogota, and SNA. Other than that you can fill the plane up and it obviously makes money. Seriously, I have been weight restricted about 3 times the past three years flying it, and all have been to the cities above. Is it a 757, no...but it doesn't need to be for 95% of the flying it does.

 

The 800 I would say 95%, the 900 a lot less.
The worst thing is this:

We are taking delivery of a bunch of new "old" airplanes, and we will be stuck flying them for another 25 years competing against newer aircraft. A320 NEO is a vastly better airplane.

 

Denver summer time...left rev pax at the gate.

 

Is the agreement from L-UAL still in place that allows jumpseat riders in case of weight restricted flights? No restrictions for jumpseat riders........

 

It's in the contract Staller.

 

Then a NG? of course. Compared to the 737 MAX we have on order a year behind the NEO, we will see...

Boeing 737 Max versus Airbus 320 neo

It would be nice to wait on parking the domestic 57 a few more years for the NEO, but it is clearly not practical. Hence why AMR and DAL are shifting their domestic lift away from the 57. The bean counters took over the engineering table a long time ago. Rather then pitching a fit about a 50 year old cockpit in a weight restricted POS, I do my job and go home. You want to see where weight restricted POS are chasing away customers, take a look at concourse F at ORD.

 

intrepidcv11,

Didn't you and DMC12 give praise to Jeff and the "record profits" recently reported and disrespected L-UAL pilots working at L-CAL? The 737-200 was a good regional airplane.