As an aside...we are down to 32 757s on the 76T side. They parked 37 jets in 2014 just like the forecast. They have not parked any 767-300s. The count is still 35.

Sled

That's good to hear. I feel comfortable in knowing we're saving $2mil/"ship" knowing those planes are being parked. Think how much we'd be saving if oil was $80/bl. Now, where's that lift on the used market the company has been looking for?

The IAH CP recently said we were going to keep all the -300s. The Airbus is staying beyond 2025. The -400s which were going to be replaced on a one for one basis with the 350 are now staying indefinitely.

Funny a lot of those old ragged L-UAL aircraft are hanging around it seems.

No doubt. Those ragged airplanes are like a pair of cement shoes when you go swimming in the Hudson. I just can't fathom how we make money with them.

Delta has a entire fleet of ragged airplanes and they make tons of money.

All right guys stop the back patting...

The Airbus are staying longer due to the Rj meltdown. In 5 years this could be corrected and they go back to the original timeline.
The 747 doesn't have too long a life. The above and fuel prices are helping this decision. Change oil above 100/bb and its back on planned parking.

I'm glad the trend is positive but this is long term talk in a short term industry.

Something interesting is Delta's oil refinery. How is that affecting them? Oh and they are parking the raggedy ones.

I heard from a source I consider reliable that the 767-300s, and maybe the 757Ts, are getting "...a -400 cockpit..."

I asked if cost was prohibitive, and he told me an STC was being worked for less than $400k per aircraft.

I don't know if it is this, but Rockwell-Collins just got a retrofit package approved for the 757/767 fleet last July:

http://www.rockwellcollins.com/~/med...well%20Collins

If true, it would make merging the fleets easier, if the cockpits were similar in configuration, and all you really had to learn differences on was engines, and a few backup pumps.

T-38, you have a pretty good source. It's all about costs....

FBN:

That's good to hear. I think he said $350k, which is dirt-cheap for a complete cockpit retrofit.

Boeing worked with Rockwell-Collins on this program, as they see it having a long-term effect. Perhaps because Boeing knows there is no real 757 replacement, they can at least provide spares and make money that way.

Again, I don't know if Rockwell is the chosen supplier. I just happened to find the link one day, and wondered if two+two=76T.

Back patting? No no my friend, it's called sarcasm.