To: Central Scrutiniser
The 321 is a dog, they won't be in Phoenix, they don't have the range to do transcons in hot weather.
I fly all models of the A320 family. The A321 is no less of a performer than a 737-300 at low altitude. It does do transcon - we have daily transcon flights in the A321 - with better reserves than a B737-400. It is not the rocket the A319 is, but few aircraft outside the B757 are. The only people who think that an A321 is a dog have not flown it - or the A330 - the A330 is a dog, and it is transatlantic.
Our 767s are getting old, but the 757s are worse because a good percentage are old Eastern ones.
66 posted on
05/20/2005 1:23:39 PM PDT by
safisoft
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To: safisoft
We still have an old Eastern bird in our 757 fleet, but they are all RR engines. We are in the process (again) of ETOPS for the 757 for Hawaii service starting early next year, I just wish we would fly the 757 to Costa Rica, the 319 has serious performance issues coming out of there on a windy day.
I'm listening to the employee webcast that Doug gave last night, interesting, he is a good guy, and if anyone can do it, he can.
I don't see any Boeing airplanes in this fleet in 5 years.
67 posted on
05/20/2005 1:42:48 PM PDT by
Central Scrutiniser
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To: safisoft
Doug did say on the webcast that the 330 will take over all the transatlantic, and that if the 350 doesn't meet the promised specs, we will look at 787 instead as the follow-on for the 330.
69 posted on
05/20/2005 1:47:07 PM PDT by
Central Scrutiniser
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