A350-1000 and other Fleet News
09-17-2024, 05:35 PM
#3101
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Apr 2020
Posts: 2,384
Boeijg dumping that partnership was a bad move. Boeing makes a lot of bad moves.
09-17-2024, 05:48 PM
#3102
Has a furrowed brow
Joined APC: Dec 2019
Posts: 1,202
I’ve had a blast on the “Atari Ferrari”. The 757 is a great plane, but everyone knows the future is coming, and it’s coming from France.
But reason 1 above is why we are flying them still. They are bought and paid for.
If Covid hadn’t happened, you’d still see the mad dog on the ramp. Change my mind.
But reason 1 above is why we are flying them still. They are bought and paid for.
If Covid hadn’t happened, you’d still see the mad dog on the ramp. Change my mind.
09-17-2024, 06:21 PM
#3103
Roll’n Thunder
Joined APC: Oct 2009
Position: Pilot
Posts: 3,836
I’ve had a blast on the “Atari Ferrari”. The 757 is a great plane, but everyone knows the future is coming, and it’s coming from France.
But reason 1 above is why we are flying them still. They are bought and paid for.
If Covid hadn’t happened, you’d still see the mad dog on the ramp. Change my mind.
But reason 1 above is why we are flying them still. They are bought and paid for.
If Covid hadn’t happened, you’d still see the mad dog on the ramp. Change my mind.
09-17-2024, 09:06 PM
#3104
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Jul 2010
Posts: 3,371
I’ve had a blast on the “Atari Ferrari”. The 757 is a great plane, but everyone knows the future is coming, and it’s coming from France.
But reason 1 above is why we are flying them still. They are bought and paid for.
If Covid hadn’t happened, you’d still see the mad dog on the ramp. Change my mind.
But reason 1 above is why we are flying them still. They are bought and paid for.
If Covid hadn’t happened, you’d still see the mad dog on the ramp. Change my mind.
Yesterday, 04:31 AM
#3105
Moderator
Joined APC: Sep 2011
Posts: 4,812
No doubt. I understand they were losing an engine per week at the end. They had already been consolidated to ATL in preparation for it's demise (from MSP, CVG, and NYC) - Covid simply made it a easy/clean kill, instead of bleeding it out over another year or so. No way they the -88 would still be here 4+ years on, IMO
Yesterday, 04:45 AM
#3106
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Apr 2020
Posts: 2,384
No doubt. I understand they were losing an engine per week at the end. They had already been consolidated to ATL in preparation for it's demise (from MSP, CVG, and NYC) - Covid simply made it a easy/clean kill, instead of bleeding it out over another year or so. No way they the -88 would still be here 4+ years on, IMO
Yesterday, 08:08 AM
#3107
Can’t find crew pickup
Joined APC: Jun 2021
Posts: 2,235
The fact that new hires got the 88 in Oct of 19 (I think that was the last I saw it) and they were still flying like crazy when everything shut down in April of 2020, I don’t think end of 2020 was going to work.
Yesterday, 08:48 AM
#3108
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Apr 2020
Posts: 2,384
Might have been a year later, but the MD wasn't too long for the world Covid aside. Have no doubt they'd send new hires to it and displace them 6 months later if needed, that said. They were backfilling SEA ER slots until not long before the category was closed.
Yesterday, 09:06 AM
#3109
Can’t find crew pickup
Joined APC: Jun 2021
Posts: 2,235
True. All I’m saying is the MD was supposed to be gone long before it actually was, and it wasn’t going to be the end of 2020 either. Although I highly doubt they would still be here even if Covid hadn’t happened.
Yesterday, 09:29 AM
#3110
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Apr 2018
Posts: 3,238
