contrail67
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Hey guys/gals....what is a good 757 replacement?....787 would be more geared towards a 767 replacement, correct? Everything I am hearing is that the 150 are addressing most of the widebodies but they also are looking at replacing the 757's also....
Rough interview???
I don't think they're going to be interested in a 737-anythingER. My guess would be that they would replace the 757 with whatever 737/A320 follow on Boeing/Airbus decide to build, perhaps stretched.
Just read an interesting article about this basically being a ploy to raise cash. Boeing or Airbus somehow get cash to UAL now in exchange for purchase commitments in the future. I think that's probably the case. Not sure if I should feel sick about how bad things are or good about some seeming level of creativity from our beloved tiltonsgottago.
Hard to submit a bid for planes that don't exist or not even in firm developmental stages.
Back when Tague was pillaging ATA, he signed a deal with Boeing that basically gave ATA a Million dollar cash payment from Boeing for every 737-800 they took delivery of. The inflow of cash helped to pay for Tagues pipe dream of building a passenger airline (because there's no money in charter). It also resulted in ATA paying about 4x the going rate on the lease payments of those shiny new airplanes.
WhineLover or ATAforNow help me out with the details. You were there a lot longer than I was.