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02-21-2015, 06:28 PM
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02-21-2015, 07:35 PM
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So you're completely disregarding the fact that they're painting quite a few LUS 757s. The only ones I've heard of going away are the former Republic 757s out west with the low weights and that can't accept winglets.
02-22-2015, 05:11 AM
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About the West 757's, they are replacing them with East metal are they not?
02-22-2015, 05:49 AM
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On the LAA side we are parking a bunch of older 757s over the next few years. Out of around 85 frames today, they plan on keeping around 35 in the end, mostly the newer European cabins (tail #s 5ET-5FT) plus a few non-Euro ERs that fly LAX-Hawaii. They need these for the Trans Atlantic stuff, Hawaii and a few Deep South routes that the airbus can't do (LPB, etc.) These are the ones that are getting repainted.
02-22-2015, 09:32 AM
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Only a few of the LUS 757s are being retired in the near future. The rest will follow further out past 2019. And only a handful of the older LAW A320s (among the oldest out there, delivered in 1989) are being parked in the desert. I flew my first LAW A320 that was repainted, so they are keeping some of them despite their age.
50 new hires sounds low to me (for the LUS side). We'll lose close to 200 this year just in retirements, and we've seen even more leaving early. I'd expect about 250 total due to medical, early retirement and mandatory retirement. Parking a handful of airplanes isn't going to offset it that much.
50 new hires sounds low to me (for the LUS side). We'll lose close to 200 this year just in retirements, and we've seen even more leaving early. I'd expect about 250 total due to medical, early retirement and mandatory retirement. Parking a handful of airplanes isn't going to offset it that much.
02-22-2015, 09:55 AM
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