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Old Jul 3, 2017 | 7:08 pm
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Originally Posted by jinglish
I don't think they ever were. Three have been set aside for conversion to freighters now that the Combis are being retired, but otherwise it's just the -400s on the way out.
AS likes a single fleet type. 73G's are a minority in the fleet.

Cutting this type was considered, and afaik it's still in evaluation (but I haven't kept up much on this in the past few months).
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