Originally Posted by
STT757
CO has plenty of 757-200s still flying domestically, especially from IAH. Those aircraft along with the 757-200s operating LAX-HNL should be redeployed back to EWR to open up new International flying. The IAH 757-200 flights as well as LAX-HNL can be replaced with the four former ATA 757-300s CO has an agreement with Boeing to acquire, along with all the new 737-900ERs.
Are the 753s ETOPS rated?
Beyond that, what 752 range routes should CO open up? GOT? They've got a ton of 752 crossing the Atlantic every day in the summer. I don't think that there are too many more landing strips that they can serve and draw any reasonable number of passengers.
Yes, Africa would seem to be a reasonable place to expand, but the 752s don't help on that front and there are no other planes out there for CO to use to do any more.