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Is there a particular reason why an article about Singapore Airlines taking delivery on the A350 posted in the American Airlines forum?
actually unless you are here to bash management or the union the forum is not for youautofixer said:
it will be great to see the AA colors on a 350 - wonder if there will be any product enhancements with the 350 delivery
Maybe AA will start some Asia flights from PHL with it
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Right. Attack the person,not the issue. Very strong intellectually. Besides for all you or I know, the Singapore A350 may be configured totally differently from the AA version. So any comparisons are meaningless.
Perhaps, but I'd bet money against it.jcw said:
I realize that US had grand ambitions of flying PHL-Asia but had no suitable airplanes to do so. In 2006 or so, US successfully applied for PHL-PEK, said it would procure used A340s to fly it, and then deferred the launch due to reality setting in (and then the Great Recession nearly killed US).
Now, there are suitable airplanes, like the 777, 77W and 787s. And next year, the A350s. But I don't believe that AA will fly to Asia from PHL despite all those capable airplanes. Why? If PHL-Asia was attractive, then wouldn't ANA or JAL or CX or SQ or another Chinese airline be flying to PHL? The absence of PHL on any of their route maps is some evidence that it's not all that viable.
All of them, of course, fly to JFK, and many of them have done that for years. If anything, AA needs to fly to Asia from NYC.
When the merger was announced, I did not post that PHL would be de-hubbed - in fact, I posted that maybe PHL would see a 788 to NRT. That's still a possibility, but Japan is becoming a less important destination relative to China and others, where there is more economic growth. The A350 is a big airplane - and AA is currently flying the smaller 788 to Asia from ORD and DFW, so I don't see the larger A350 flying to Asia from PHL, where the Asian O&D is low.
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less diverse fleet means less employees......why do you want that exactly?1AA said:
Because it is superior to the 777, at least the 777-200 and 777-200ER. Double digit fuel burn reduction between the two and the same legs.autofixer said:
however the 777-200ER can carry a little bit more weight.
(for the record the 787-9 is also superior to the 777-200/200ER)
Not true on less employees. 1000 aircraft is 1000 aircraft. A diverse fleet from a maintenance standpoint is a challenge to maintain. Try making gate calls one from the other. Pilots are qualified one fleet only. The only cross over is the 757/767. Maintenance on the other hand has to be qualified on all fleet types that cross their path. 737/757/767/777/787/MD80/A319/A321. Then throw in USAIR fleets when the integration is complete. A330-200/300/A320 and the upcoming A350. Then pilots get upset when we take our time figuring out how to accomplish a repair. There's more but I'm sure you get my point. For maintenance it's a nightmare.topDawg said:
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That is simply not true. Simple fleets will have less employees. That is a fact. (and a well documented fact by your company)1AA said:
I work for an airline that has 23 different types of airplanes and 15 different engine types. You don't have to tell me what maintaining them is.1AA said:
But I also know that if we were to say go to a 717/737/757/767/777/787 airline that we would be over staffed.
few things, pilots are going to be upset if you don't do what they want if you are Delta or Southwest in fleet. So I don't care about that.1AA said:
The simple fact is, unless you are a "I hope they shut down Tulsa and outsource everything but line maintenance type (not saying you are for the record) then it means more engines, more components and more airframe check lines. More of that means more employees. More employees is better for labor.
and FWIW as I said above, my airline has made it very clear that fleet complexity means more employees. Maintenance and pilots see the bulk of these extra employees.
Oh and I don't think its a nightmare. I'm in the minority but I try to get as much training as I possibly can. I enjoy learning about airplanes. (I want to go to A330/717/E90 school for example)
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