Originally Posted by
SunLover
The 744 sticks around for a good long while. It's too iconic a bird to retire.
I wish, but they won't retain old, fuel-hungry airplanes that are wrong-sized for most routes and seem to have grim dispatch reliability (judging from the agonies reported in the UA forum from people trying to go to Australia) just because they're "iconic" and look good in TV ads. I foresee 777s/787s as the longhaul mainstays systemwide.