Bus longevity rumor
11-05-2012, 09:27 AM
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Bus longevity rumor
El Cap just told me that he engaged in confabulation with a suit from Wacker. The suit was supposedly one of the big maint / fleet honchos.
Suit said UCAL had planned to begin parking the bus in 2015 but they have decided to schedule them for heavy maint and keep them till 2020.
Given that the planes are flying at record load factors (making tons of cash) and that we desperately need the lift, this sounds like the first good decision I've heard come out of the Willis Tower. Time will tell.
Long live the comfortable, quiet, plastic jet!
Suit said UCAL had planned to begin parking the bus in 2015 but they have decided to schedule them for heavy maint and keep them till 2020.
Given that the planes are flying at record load factors (making tons of cash) and that we desperately need the lift, this sounds like the first good decision I've heard come out of the Willis Tower. Time will tell.
Long live the comfortable, quiet, plastic jet!
Last edited by oldmako; 11-05-2012 at 09:49 AM.
11-05-2012, 05:35 PM
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The first ones showed up in either 93 or 94 (a year before my time, but that is what I recall hearing), and the newest are around 2000? Not that old, and frankly, not the maintenance disaster that they're reported to be if the airline would have mechanics and parts to work on them with...
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