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05-09-2018, 06:24 PM
#652
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Oct 2006
Position: B-787 Captain
Posts: 183
So! What kills the airline industry and Pilot careers?
The price of oil going up and the credit market rates increasing.
Are you watching what is going on the last year and especially the last 24 hours? Not good!
Fly Safe
The price of oil going up and the credit market rates increasing.
Are you watching what is going on the last year and especially the last 24 hours? Not good!
Fly Safe
05-10-2018, 07:08 AM
#654
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Joined APC: Nov 2009
Posts: 5,199
Originally Posted by Yak02
So! What kills the airline industry and Pilot careers?
The price of oil going up and the credit market rates increasing.
Are you watching what is going on the last year and especially the last 24 hours? Not good!
Fly Safe
The price of oil going up and the credit market rates increasing.
Are you watching what is going on the last year and especially the last 24 hours? Not good!
Fly Safe
05-10-2018, 09:35 AM
#655
Number Last
Joined APC: Sep 2017
Position: Boeing voice activated systems and ACARS commander
Posts: 442
Originally Posted by Grumble
Wouldn’t lose any sleep over it. Fracking is the new price cap. Below a certain level, fracking isn’t cost effective and they shut the wells down. When oil prices go up they turn the wells back on and it starts flowing increasing supply. It’s our biggest weapon against OPEC now. They can no longer dial back supply to drive up cost.
05-10-2018, 12:59 PM
#657
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Joined APC: Mar 2017
Posts: 705
Originally Posted by Grumble
Wouldn’t lose any sleep over it. Fracking is the new price cap. Below a certain level, fracking isn’t cost effective and they shut the wells down. When oil prices go up they turn the wells back on and it starts flowing increasing supply. It’s our biggest weapon against OPEC now. They can no longer dial back supply to drive up cost.
05-10-2018, 08:12 PM
#658
Don't say Guppy
Joined APC: Dec 2010
Position: Guppy driver
Posts: 1,926
Everybody i knows that flew or flies the 330 loves it, better than the 320. But we ain't adding another fleet type. I think we are too invested in 777/787 to buy the 350. 3 airframes that do the same thing is idiotic. The 330 is also closer to the 787 than it is to the 767. So that would make 4 airframes doing the same thing.
The 321NEO LR covers a lot of east coast to Europe. I could see that freeing up bigger airframes for other tasks.
Or just more 787's. Or both.
I think United is very well strategically positioned with old/new aircraft mix. We can park some old airplanes quickly if the economy dives, or buy more new/old ones to expand. American hosed themselves. They kept the MD-80's so long they finally capitulated and ordered 500 737/320's over a very short period of time. I can't remember, 3 or 5 years. Lots of money, lots of obligation, expensive to park in a downturn.
The 321NEO LR covers a lot of east coast to Europe. I could see that freeing up bigger airframes for other tasks.
Or just more 787's. Or both.
I think United is very well strategically positioned with old/new aircraft mix. We can park some old airplanes quickly if the economy dives, or buy more new/old ones to expand. American hosed themselves. They kept the MD-80's so long they finally capitulated and ordered 500 737/320's over a very short period of time. I can't remember, 3 or 5 years. Lots of money, lots of obligation, expensive to park in a downturn.
05-11-2018, 03:43 AM
#659
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Joined APC: Oct 2010
Posts: 2,639
Originally Posted by Probe
American hosed themselves. They kept the MD-80's so long they finally capitulated and ordered 500 737/320's over a very short period of time. I can't remember, 3 or 5 years. Lots of money, lots of obligation, expensive to park in a downturn.
05-11-2018, 05:19 AM
#660
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Joined APC: Apr 2010
Position: Fifi
Posts: 176
Originally Posted by Grumble
320 to 330 differences is how long, days? Can’t imagine the NEO is much more. Training footprint would be minimal at best, and Airbus is desperate to get the 330NEO on someone’s property.
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