forgot to bid

It's 25 up and 13 down using the current prognostications. Losing the 744s is going to hurt, especially marketing who loves to use them in their ads.

The 350 I think will have 4 man ops, which is good for staffing. That 763ER fleet is big and will one day need to be replaced. I guess with 330s. Hopefully in equal number but you never know with capacity discipline.

Thankfully the 350s and 330s are coming.

forgot to bid

Nah, the 787 is just a museum piece now.

http://ktar.com/22/1826499/Tucson-Arizona-to-house-early-Boeing-787-Dreamliner



It's good to know they've stopped the whole battery fireball thing.

MoonShot

At the last base meeting they said they no longer have 787 orders.

Carl Spackler

That's a tough one Ed. I've always been a Boeing snob and never thought much of Airbus, but I got about 4 hours in the A350 sim last February. It was a really nice flight deck. The display units are set at angles to give you a panoramic view of everything. Normal control law was being updated, so we flew it the whole time in alternate law (and had to manually trim ). Oh the humanity! It was an absolutely terrific experience.

The 787 cockpit feels a lot like the G650, but has dual HUD's. The A350 I was in had no HUD on either side which is a big deal for me since I'm almost lost without a HUD.

All in all, I'd say it's a tie.

Carl

Mesabah

So what? Rising domestic demand, and a stronger dollar is what returned DAL to profitability in the first place. We should all hope this trend continues.

Karnak

I heard the reasons NWA/DAL balked at the deliveries had nothing to do with the technical hiccups, but came down to the large decrease in payload capability compared to the specs promised when the order was placed.

gloopy

No one is talking about debt free. You can have a home mortgage and a car payment and have debt. The numbers behind these levels of debt are going to be unrecoverable its a matter of when not if.


The people that make those decisions all agree, without exception, that rates WILL have to go up. The only thing keeping rates down is the rapid accumulation of debt in the first place. Then there's the while reserve currency ponzi scheme thing. We will be the first generation since WWI that has to deal with that.

LOL omg. Thanks for the laugh. The problem isn't liquidity, its debt, pending inflation and wealth devaluation on a scale we haven't had to deal with in a long time if ever. Keynes was an idiot and if the only good thing that comes out of all this is his legacy is properly smeared then I'll call it a solid win.

We already pay people to take out mortgages with the ridiculous intrest deduction and one failed "community reinvestment act" after another. But the math behind the sum total of the bill for this folly we will have to pay will be staggering to the Keynesian theorists and central planning "experts".

gloopy

If our government bought them for us I'm sure we'd have a couple hundred.

80ktsClamp

I was talking about the 787. Battery fires, outsourcing issues and so on. It's getting better...

Mesabah

The US debt to GDP ratio isn't even 100% yet, China is over 200%, and that's the fabricated numbers, meaning, it's probably much higher. No matter which way you slice it, the US is in far and away better shape than the other big players.