I don’t see why Alaska is taking so long to reconfigure their Airbus aircraft. As of right now, all but one of the 737-700 airplanes (obviously excluding the three freighters) will have the new interior, with N644AS currently undergoing refits. And considering all the 737-700s fly mainly intra-Alaska routes (including the Timbers plane, which almost always was parked at a gate in PDX until Alaska relocated the fleet), it’s not like most of us will experience the new interior on a Boeing anytime soon (I will during the summer more than likely, as I’ll be flying to Ketchican fron Portland)

This one really doesn’t make sense to me, but if Alaska is spending all of this money to repaint and reconfigure all the Airbuses, then why would they return most of these aircraft to their lessors rather early after investing so much into them. It just doesn’t make sense to me, especially since the 737 MAX is still grounded and likely won’t be ungrounded by the time Alaska takes delivery of the jets in Q2. It just doesn’t make sense to me to invest so much into a fleet where you don’t plan on keeping most of the aircraft in that fleet for the long run. We still have no word on whether the A320neo jets are going to join the fleet or not.