US 767s Get Another Year's Reprieve

[nycbusdriver]

Buried in this article about the "semi"-upgrades to the AA 767-300s, Nocella says the US 767-200s will be flying through the summer of 2015.  Originally, they were supposed to be gone last year.  Then, the plan changed to "gone in 2014."
 
http://crankyflier.com/2014/03/11/american-is-upgrading-its-767s-but-only-the-front-half/
 
"Actually, the old US Airways 767-200s will be the first to go. They actually anticipate keeping them flying through the summer of 2015 for one reason – it allows them to accelerate the work being done upgrading the 767-300s. But after summer 2015, those airplanes will finally become beer cans."

 

[flyer63]

Good news for east pilots

 

[cltrat]

Good news for east pilots

bad news for the people loading those old dinosaurs with the loading systems that half ass work.

 

[algflyr]

Well at least two have just left the fleet. It's ironic that you started this thread as I just got back from taking ship 246 to the desert last night and planned on starting a thread about this. I will post some pictures of her final flight west... Also when I picked her up in BFM yesterday, ship 245 was also there being stripped down and will be flown to the desert within a few days. So two 767's have definitely left our fleet. We had 10, so now it's 8 if none of the others have left.

 

[nycbusdriver]

Well at least two have just left the fleet. It's ironic that you started this thread as I just got back from taking ship 246 to the desert last night and planned on starting a thread about this. I will post some pictures of her final flight west... Also when I picked her up in BFM yesterday, ship 245 was also there being stripped down and will be flown to the desert within a few days. So two 767's have definitely left our fleet. We had 10, so now it's 8 if none of the others have left.

 
If they're going to use them to "accelerate the work" on the AA 767-300s, then they will probably be used on routes (domestic?  international?) that are currently being flown by those AA airplanes.  Where do AA 767-300s fly?  That's likely where the US -200ERs are going to be seen through summer of 2015.

 

[737823]

AA 763s fly to Europe, South America, several Caribbean destination, DFW-HNL/OGG and a few domestic routes like DFW-LAX/SFO, JFK-SFO, and ORD-LAX.

Comprehensive lists:
https://www.aacargo.com/downloads/schedule/widebody_USA_Domestic_06Mar14.pdf (Domestic)
https://www.aacargo.com/downloads/schedule/widebody_USA_Outbound_06Mar14.pdf (International)

Josh

 

[700UW]

They also fly JFK-MCO.

 

[737823]

They also fly JFK-MCO.

As indicated on my links along with MIA-JFK/SFO.

Josh

 

[700UW]

Your links werent there when I made my post.

 

[USFlyer]

Slightly off topic, but what's the status of the 734s?  How many are left and what is the rough timeline for them to be retired?

 

[700UW]

Showing 17 active and they will be gone by the end of the year:
 
http://www.airfleets.net/flottecie/US%20Airways-active-b737.htm

 

[cltrat]

thanks for the update algflyr , interesting to read.
 
working them to GIG there usually weight issues ,the local load guy told me how they all differ in fuel usage, As I recall he said 249 does the best

 

[robbedagain]

according to one person in my stat who is in the know w the aircraft fleet... he says we have 12 734s flying and 2 more on standby   im not sure how accurate that is but he has said that repeatedly 

 

[wings396]

That sounds about right, the last number of active that I saw was 14.

 

[PullUp]

734's supposed to be gone by the end of august.
Cheers.