Originally Posted by
Robt760
AA 767-200 are likely the next aircraft to leave the fleet after MD 80s. The aircraft integrity is still pretty good, but the interiors need to have more consistent deep cleaning beyond whatever they are doing now. I give it 5 years before there starts to be major reliability issues with these or replacements come on line.
That may be right but I predict that the 762s will be retired as the first 15 787s are delivered, if not before. The arrival of the 787s will free up 763s that could be used for transcons.
IMO, if AA was going to reconfigure 757s for transcons, AA would have already done so; new 738s could have freed up enough 757s if that was the plan.