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Apr 2, 2010 | 11:21 pm

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Robert Leach

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Originally Posted by Hawaiino

Spoke to a 20 year plus FA on my HNL-NRT segment, boy are there some
unresolved issues between NW staff and DL management! The "news" though is that DL intends to replace all TransPac and IntraAsia metal with 767's and 757's exclusively.

Did you even stop to think this through and respond to the FA?

You could use 767s and 757s intra-Asia, certainly, but you can't fly from ATL/JFK/DTW/MSP to Asia on a 767, and you can't fly to Asia from anywhere in the CONUS on a 757, so the FA was flat wrong. Wrong. Wrong. Fanning the flames of doom and despair, was he/she.

I suspect what this FA was reacting to was the operation of PDX-NRT and SFO-NRT using the 767. That's hardly a wholesale replacement of the current fleet to Tokyo.

At the very least, have a healthy dose of skepticism with what you hear from FAs.

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