A350-1000 and other Fleet News
06-21-2023, 02:34 AM
#691
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well, “a bit” usually refers to a small amount. Get your southern vernacular straight. If a meant a large portion i would’ve said “a good bit.”
06-21-2023, 03:40 AM
#692
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Regardless, it’s kind of hard to replace a WB you’re trying to position for an ocean crossing with a narrow body.
06-21-2023, 04:31 AM
#693
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06-21-2023, 04:32 AM
#694
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and some of the domestic hours the ER does, so does the 330. Look at transcons. So assuming the rate of intl hour usage will be that much more better is probably not true
06-21-2023, 04:41 AM
#695
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I’ve flown ERs to all those places (except PDX, but I know they did it pre-COVID). For SLC and MSP, many times it was for it to continue to HNL. CVG and RDU was usually to go to CDG.
There is very little domestic on the ER right now, and what is would be difficult to replace with a NB. Much of the time that I’ve seen them do TPA or MCO turns was to get time on the jet prior to it getting ETOPS recert’d due to MX, etc.
Just one man’s observation.
06-21-2023, 04:44 AM
#696
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We’ve got 45 763s. A good few are doing JFK-LAX every day as well as some ATL hops. Still would need 30 or so widebodies to replace them, if we assume maybe a handful of current orders are replacements rather than growth, and some of the D1 config 321neos take over the D1 763 transcons to a point.
Then in future there will be some sort of domestic route on the 330 we don’t expect for positioning.
350 is doing LAX-ATL now for example.
06-21-2023, 08:38 AM
#697
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06-21-2023, 01:07 PM
#698
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Honest question, are you on the fleet?
I’ve flown ERs to all those places (except PDX, but I know they did it pre-COVID). For SLC and MSP, many times it was for it to continue to HNL. CVG and RDU was usually to go to CDG.
There is very little domestic on the ER right now, and what is would be difficult to replace with a NB. Much of the time that I’ve seen them do TPA or MCO turns was to get time on the jet prior to it getting ETOPS recert’d due to MX, etc.
Just one man’s observation.
I’ve flown ERs to all those places (except PDX, but I know they did it pre-COVID). For SLC and MSP, many times it was for it to continue to HNL. CVG and RDU was usually to go to CDG.
There is very little domestic on the ER right now, and what is would be difficult to replace with a NB. Much of the time that I’ve seen them do TPA or MCO turns was to get time on the jet prior to it getting ETOPS recert’d due to MX, etc.
Just one man’s observation.
even MSP and PDX I don’t know of any 763’s doing domestic routes to position. Seems you’re talking about when those airports had Intl 763 flying which would be 4+ years ago? Certainly haven’t seen any of these domestic ER routes to these airports for the last 2 years and I’m based on the west coast where I feel I’d at least see them.
