miaami wrote:777 reconfiguration continues
7BE Finished and back in service
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/AAL9678
7BX sent to HKG for work to begin
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/AAL9679
Do you happen to know what the timelines are for the rest of the conversions (and how many are left?)? I'm wondering because it looks like the utilization of the 772 fleet is really low for the planned summer schedule. The only routes that have the 247-seat 772s with F are DFW-FRA, MIA-SCL, and MIA-MXP (plus a repositioning flight each way between DFW and MIA). That should only require 4-5 frames to operate. The 289-seat 772s are planned for LAX-GRU, LAX-NRT, LAX-HND, DFW-EZE, DFW-FCO, DFW-NRT (x2), MIA-EZE, MIA-GRU, MIA-GIG, MIA-MAD, MIA-BCN, and MIA-CDG. That schedule requires 20 aircraft. There are 34 772s in these two configurations, so it seems that 9-10 frames are spare and/or available to get modded.
The 13 260-seat 772s are fully utilized: 12 out of 13 frames required to operate DFW-LHR, RDU-LHR, JFK-EZE, JFK-GIG, JFK-LHR (x3), JFK-BCN, and JFK-FCO.
Thanks for any info!