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Jan 11, 2017, 11:57 am

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Originally Posted by tphuang

Thanks for your very informative response.

I wonder with A320NEO scheduled to join service at some point this year, if they could be put on these transcon routes by then.

Dieuwer, I think you mean don't fly A320 tcon in winter. There is a thread in a.net about VX having the same issue.

tphuang, you're welcome. I believe we don't start taking deliveries of A320 NEOs until 2020; currently all of our 2017 deliveries are A321s with the IAE engines. Our first NEOs are actually scheduled to be A321s in 2018. The NEO models should definitely improve transcon performance, though. Sharklets also make a significant difference for transcons, unfortunately of our 130 A320s only 12 or 13 currently have them. (All of the N8xxJB series birds, plus 2 or 3 of the N7xxJB aircraft).

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