Originally Posted by
sbm12
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.
While there is a lot of competition on that route, the route has far fewer flights recently across the board. Every time i have ever taken that flight, it is is packed, even back in the days of D10s and 764s. So, they can definitely pack it, i just don't know about the yields on it, but yields to HNL are never high. Though, cargo was imperative, particularly cargo going to GUM from the west coast as it didn't need to back-track to HNL or be put on another carrier. There's also a lot of government traffic on this flight, so a bigger flight to HNL or a N/S to GUM may not be out of the question.
Originally Posted by
crnk
for the 77A: wikipedia says 88 produced, 86 in use
According to Boeing's list, here are the deliveries (not sure which are where now)
UA: 22
From what I recall, UA did park a bunch of these post 9/11. So, i'm sure there are 777s parked out there somewhere.