Bonafide wrote:ok, this. A colleague mistakenly told me Uniteds had retrofitted bins.
Whether $50b is pessimistic level-setting (I tend to think it is) or not, Boeing is conveying one very important message: we're not going to design an airliner around small gaps in the market or edge cases, but for the heart of the market. The message is that any MOM concept is dead. If Boeing ever ...
Jump to postMy question is regarding Deltas remain 75Y's. Are we going to see any other interior mods to them. From what I recall, correct me if im wrong but, United's 300's has more modern bins similar to the ones on Deltas 737-9's that can accommodate more bags. Will we see this install or any other changes ...
Jump to postLooks like they lifted the stop a few minutes ago and flights are taking off again.
Jump to postRight but Europe to ANC is popular. Europe to HNL is underserved and ANC is right on the way to get fuel and stretch your legs. "Europe to ANC is popular?" So popular that so far, only Condor and Icelandair have tried to fly it nonstop, both with limited frequency only in the peak summer ...
Jump to post32andBelow wrote:wouldn’t HNL ANC EUROPE be the perfect niche for them to operate at least seasonally?
jbs2886 wrote:VS is a JV with DL. Can’t see them getting “driven out.”
I'm imagining how different the news coverage would have been if this rotation had happened to be flown on a 787-9.
Jump to postI absolutely cannot imagine AS trying to compete on TATL out of SEA unless either (1) it is as part of a JV or (2) it is to currently unserved vacation-heavy markets. They will get beaten to a pulp if they try to go head-on against the three carriers already flying SEA-LHR or the SkyTeam fortress ro...
Jump to postSalmson wrote:What is going on with A350 in 2024? How can be explained such a surge of interest and the deluge of orders we are witnessing?
This is a silly discussion, and I say that as a Seattleite. Boeing is not just Renton and Everett; it's also North Charleston and San Antonio and soon Wichita. And to right the ship every one of those locations is going to need to have managers on site paying careful attention to process and more se...
Jump to post(2) AS has plenty of 737s parked in SEA overnight and elsewhere that could be used for red eyes, it doesn't need to "free" up 737s. Continental US destinations tend to generate much higher yields from day/evening turns than redeye/early morning turns. If a few more 737s could be allowed t...
Jump to postYep, there are RONs from SEA, SFO, and SAN.
Jump to postStriking certainly doesn’t help build trust or reduce antagonism. Labor negotiations are a two way street and we shouldn’t pretend the full onus is on a CEO. Labor needs to show up and be willing to partner, which has never been the case at Boeing. But for a labor/management relationship to work th...
Jump to postDoes anyone know why there were 3 MAX-9s that flew BFI-OGG yesterday? Charter for the Valve Corporation annual Hawaii trip. So that explains the “aircraft availability problem” (as the F/O put it) that resulted in yesterday’s SEA-AUS being subbed with a -900A and three passengers being denied board...
Jump to postMaybe eventually. I think the only change with the widebodies at first will be that they'll do some US mainland turns between Hawaii flights to improve utilization. International is another whole nut to crack, beyond 2 mergers in a decade.
Jump to postMore than 200 A330-200/300s are still used on mainly Chinese domestic routes and the -900 would be a good replacement for many of these on routes where the 787 or A350 are a bit too big or pretentious. Those are funny words for "expensive." The 339 is going to be available dirt cheap, it ...
Jump to postPossibly a silly question, but, has the B788 been brought inline, structurally and production-wise, with the B789/B78X? https://leehamnews.com/2018/04/17/boeing-to-implement-structural-design-change-in-787-8-for-production-commonality/ This is a link from 2018 where this was mentioned. Has it becom...
Jump to postI'm not sure what other alternatives they'll have. The 753s can't live on forever and there is no suitable replacement in development at the moment. You're talking 10 years out if they started today. At this point the most reasonable plan is to fly them into the early 2030s, and then replace them w...
Jump to postn515cr wrote:76Z 184 (yes, a 76Z) arrived at CWF today for IFC
I don't understand what incentive Airbus has to launch an A225 any time in the near future when both the 223 and 320N backlogs are as long as they are. It's not like Boeing is going to launch something that's going to shave 8% off the fuel burn of the 8 MAX, which is what it would take to decisively...
Jump to postGot it, thanks. I'm eager for more MAX 8s to arrive so we can get one out of DCA every once in awhile hopefully - patiently waiting for the 800s to get refurbed too! Really really can't wait for big bins on DCA flights. They are always packed full, the passengers are as self-important as you'd expe...
Jump to postFI barely uses the 757's that they have. They are either parked or have very low utilization rates. The two existing 753s are each flying one ~6-hour rotation between Iceland and continental Europe daily. They used to fly in a scissor pattern with roughly double that level of utilization alternatin...
Jump to postUtilization of UA's current 753 fleet appears similar to the rest of the large narrowbodies. Most of the flights are 3-5 hours and they are doing 2-4 of those flights a day. Despite the fleet's age they are not being used as flex capacity but as a core part of the network. I expect the real cost pro...
Jump to postCondor currently has a fleet of 11 RR-powered 757-300s, two of which appear to be permanently withdrawn from service, and the other nine of which will be withdrawn after either the 2024 or 2025 summer seasons. They previously flew four others, two of which are stored and two of which have gone to CI...
Jump to postWith Airbus deep in development of the "Wing of Tomorrow", the ideal platform might be the long-rumored A322, which would be about a four-row stretch over the A321. That would get to the ~220-seat level and with tankage derived from the XLR would approximate 753 range. Airbus is not going...
Jump to postOn the 753... I agree it may not be economical to acquire real-world used frames at this point in the aircraft lifecycle. But the aircraft still plays a vital role on hub-hub and large spoke flights in the main banks, and if anything it looks to me like more could fit into the network on those missi...
Jump to postThis isn't new capacity for HU - they are reducing PEK to 2x weekly to start this CKG service 1x weekly.
Jump to postDL might opportunistically add a few hub flights to BWI around the edges to the extent the Washington/Baltimore markets grow, but it’s very hard to imagine anything more than that making economic sense. BWI is exactly the sort of place that caters to WN’s strengths and the traditional legacies’ weak...
Jump to postProposed by whom? Given the 787-3 was dropped because over anything other than the very shortest routes, the -8 was more efficient, I can’t see its wing being used for any freighter version of the 787. It would be interesting to see an analysis of the two wings in (1) the UPS and FedEx 767/A300 rep...
Jump to postReamer, you seem to have insight information on the activity at CHS. I don't want to pressure you and I'm not too sure about Boeing South Carolina's reaction to this but it would be great to have some blog on the activity of aircraft movement at CHS similar to Cawby's blog at PAE. This is of course...
Jump to postDemand won't be a problem at all. Yields… we'll see.
Jump to postReamer wrote:3. 1152 has a delivery date coming up.
They have their hands full at the moment just filling passenger 787 demand. Every year with 60+ passenger 787 orders pushes the possible timeline for a freighter a year to the right, regardless of the merits of the 787 freighter. With that said, the market positioning of the 787 makes a freighter di...
Jump to postPY last week had a real Airbus fest. 'Lease' Wamos A333 EC-NTX for PBM - AMS was directly followed by 'return to lessor' A343 PZ-TCW https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/ec-ntx#3482ee27 https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/pz-tcw#3482f1cc Also PY has also wetleased two A332's from Mal...
Jump to postI don’t think DL would buy pre-Sky Interior 739ERs.
There are not many operators of later 739ERs and all of them except Lion seem like operators who need the lift. I think it might actually be easier to add capacity of this nature with used A321ceos.
Anything a 764 can do, a 788 can do better. Anything a 77L can do that involves UA’s network, a 789 can do much cheaper. We all know that most of the potential 748 customers spurned it for the 77W. The out-of-production aircraft that really isn’t replaceable yet is the 753, and I bet that if UA coul...
Jump to postYYZORD wrote:Any update on AC's sole 789 on order?
10Y A350 is usually 16.5”, comparable to 9Y A330 or 8Y 767. I would bet strongly against Emirates going there.
Jump to postGiven the number of EK A380s still in storage, I suspect the insurer’s appetite for financial outlay to get this older-build frame out of trouble is limited. If it can be ferried with temporary repairs, it will be. If not, I wouldn’t be shocked to see it broken up on site, with EK carrying engines a...
Jump to postLooking at Boeing's Orders and Deliveries site, Air Europa only has 2 unfilled orders for 787-9 (which would correspond to LNs 1028 and 1042), leaving the remaining 3 (LNs 1090, 1110 & 1120) ntus it seems. 1042 and 1090 are for lessors, so wouldn't appear in Air Europa's order total, but that d...
Jump to postI'm starting to think that LN1106 and LN1116 will indeed end up with TAAG and not Royal Air Maroc per the previous posts on this thread. If RAM is indeed the customer for the WestJets, perhaps TAAG is the customer for the TUI and the Mongolian. Or the other way around. As with all reallocations lat...
Jump to postStill astonished by how effectively Boeing is keeping the information drum sealed at the moment. So I'm going to try to assemble the few fluttering rumors. We have the following groups of aircraft in the rework process with uncertain customers: 787-8 787-8RR ZA863 1015 ALC, originally for Scoot 787-...
Jump to postYep, this is bound to happen. The A350-900 is competing almost head-on with (and, frankly, getting outcompeted by) the 787-9 and sometimes the -10. But Boeing does not have a good answer for the A350-1000 at the moment and is not going to in the foreseeable future. Meanwhile, the A350F is looking in...
Jump to postYou still are not getting it. That fuel is not unneeded and WILL still be burned either way despite the magic (paper) weight savings of moving bags from the hold to bins because the actual weight has not changed. Now you are simply making false assumptions about weight at the gate and then also sub...
Jump to postA merged entity can use this currently open capacity... N382HA could do a PDX-ANC turn, or any number of other things. No, not every turn or circumstance will allow this, but considering AS/HA's strong overlap in many key western cities, think SEA/PDX/LAS/SFO/SMF/OAK/LAX/SAN etc, the merger creates...
Jump to postvhtje wrote:“American Airlines” is much more likely.
Alaska isn't going to get economies of scale in A321s and 717s. It certainly will by selling the A321s off, eventually sending the 717s to the boneyard, and replacing all of them with more already-ordered, dirt-cheap MAXes that can be scheduled in a more optimal way with a bigger network. On the na...
Jump to postThat's an amazing production run for the 300F Especially when you consider that a substantial portion of the 767-200, -200ER, and -300ER fleets have also been converted to freighters. The 767 was pathbreaking as a midsize passenger jet but was ultimately outclassed by the A330. As a commercial frei...
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