Originally Posted by CLazarus

Maybe some other carriers have already retired some P&W frames of a similar vintage that we could get blades from to tide us over a few more years.

Originally Posted by CLazarus

I'll be darned, now we have a potential source for more fan blades and spare engines to tide us over for a few years. Still gotta get all the blades inspected though, and it sounds like it will take many months. And of course we might ultimately be waiting on cowlings too.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-b...-idUSKBN2BT02S

Originally Posted by baseball

I've head everything from parking those 777 airframes to keeping the 767's a lot longer. The 767 400's need Polaris. Not likely to get it. But, they really need C and in some cases D checks. Gear re-packs, re-hangs, and swings. I think you'll see 400's flying about and getting positioned for the work. We won't likely have enough 'lift" to meet demand this summer. No way to get the 400's up and flying while the 777's are down for engine inspections.

On the bright side, our AQP needs a tweek as the 400's were taken out of the syllabus. Don't know how inadvertent or intentional it was, but the Feds will have to re-bless some sort of plan to get the 756 community re-quall'd in the airframe. Just cuz we been doing a 400 in the sim and 400 PFD/ND in the CBT doesn't necessarily mean the Feds think we're current and qualified. I think only the "test pilots/retired pilots" have been moving those airframes. Thus the Hong Kong (ewr 400) mafia group has been shut down.

You wanted rumors.....there u have it.

Originally Posted by A320

I got re-qualified on the 756 in Feb, RQ2. 2 of the sims were in the 764 sim.