Originally Posted by
rurouni212
Anyone know if it's possible for Asiana to easily add an extra 777 order or would simply leasing another 777 be more feasible? I know it's too early for Asiana to actually do anything about the plane yet but I was wondering what the options were.
Originally Posted by
Pseudo Nim
Reflect on that question with consideration that they'd need to pony up around $250M for a new aircraft, or only about $10-15M per year for a leased one - and this is ignoring Boeing's backlog.
Or they can convert another non-QS 777 to QS.
Originally Posted by
Pseudo Nim
It was posted upthread that SYD appears to have lost QS.
SYD wasn't a QS route in the beginning, it is SFO/LAX/LHR.
And if you read my above post listed which 777 is QS or not, you can see before the SFO crash, there were only 6 QS 2 class 777 (there is one more but irrelevant as it is 3 class), so it perfectly fit the 3 QS routes, nothing more nothing less.
Originally Posted by
Pseudo Nim
Interesting.
Wonder if SFO retains more or less regular QS service. With all due respect to the travellers on Saturday's flight, I sure hope ours doesn't have non-QS seating this weekend... else that'll be a looooooooooooooooooooooooong flight.
If the seat is that important to you, you can always switch to UA, UA's SFO-ICN is being flown by 744, AVOD and horizontal flat C seat. There is SQ available for SFO-ICN as well.