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Oct 6, 2008 | 9:21 am

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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.

Right. I was contemplating that the 77As might result in a few 764s getting reconfigured for TATL service to serve key routes like IAH-FRA (which will likely become a key route post *A transition). Right now, LH has a monopoly on that route.