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Old Jul 30, 2015 | 2:05 am
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Originally Posted by ptownca
The new plane deliveries are arriving One of the 2015 deliveries is in the fleet according to pilot on one of the flights I was on this week.
IIRC there were 10 orders inbound from this order as of earlier this year (listed on Wikipedia, at least). That's down to 9 and I think the fleet count is up by 1.

Hopefully this will work out well for VX. They've got 9 more planes coming in; removing two from that count for Hawaii, that's 7 planes to allocate...hopefully towards beefing up some more of the route system (e.g. more frequencies throughout) since (again IIRC) things got a little thin after the scramble a year or two ago (when VX got into DAL and either DCA or LGA out of the blue).

Mind you, I wish they'd add in some East Coast-to-Chicago flights...but that's also just me wishing for a near-replication of Amtrak's LD system in the sky so I can switch between the two as time permits (and/or as Amtrak's OTP doesn't...do remember, my first flight on VX [and my first frequent flyer mistake...not signing up for Feel the Earn prior to the flight...] was due to Amtrak's OTP between Washington and Chicago disintegrating catastrophically).
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