Gooooooood Evening FlyerTalk! It is UA767400 with your Sunday night update!
1 SkyWest CRJ has beenPainted, one skywest CRJ was found out not to been in the new livery, Aircraft 0645 (a 737-500) will exit or has exited, 3 737-800’s received E+, the new Boeing 737-900ER (0447) has been found with the new livery, date announced on Airbus interior modifications and aircraft 0505 (a boeing 737-800) in the new livery.
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Originally Posted by
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UA767400
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those were the good days! I am not sure that's why they are getting rid of the 762. It could be more capacity related. Either way five are going away this years- probably depending if UA Takes delivery of the 5 787s that are expected.
CO's 762s have similar capacity to a 752: 170 passengers. However, being a widebody plane, it weighs nearly 140,000 lbs more than a 757, so you can see how the CASM (operating cost) of a 762 is ridiculously high. It was a plane designed for $15/barrel oil, not $140/barrel.
The 787s are not direct replacements for the 762s though; the 787s are much larger. The 762s will be replaced with the reconfigured 763s which are marginally larger but cost the same to operate as a 762, making them much more cost-effecient.
Very true. The 762s are still in the fillet now as they were expecting the 787 already to be in service. In order to keep the expected capacity for this year it was necessary to keep the 762 plus they are waiting for the 763s that will be newly configured.