Originally Posted by
MBM3
If they join the fleet, I doubt we would see them being used TATL but rather to restart old routes or upgauge others in the Pacific that used the 764s. Think LAX-HNL, HNL-NGO, GUM-NRT.
LAX-HNL has been getting downgraded recently, and there is no indication that CO really has a lot of demand to justify the bigger bird. Maybe there is cargo demand, but I'd be surprised, as that is a relatively well served route. HNL-NGO wasn't drawing yields either. They could run it on the GUM-NRT run and get rid of the wing-tip flight that they have with a 738/764 at one point in the day, but I'm not sure just how great the demand really is. With the number of routes that got cut out of GUM on the 738 it seems unlikely to me that there is a lot of demand to up-gauge things, but maybe there is.