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Old Jun 27, 2021, 5:15 pm
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Originally Posted by artvandalay
Both Boeing and Airbus are sitting on plenty of previously ordered, yet unclaimed inventory at the moment.
I am not aware there are any 787 or 77W that are built and unclaimed, you might be mistaken the 737 MAX.

Originally Posted by worldtrav
Some of the PW fleet are in or heading to heavy checks in XMN, I seriously doubt UA would invest the cost of that check if they planned to retire them. Not saying that some of them won't be retired, just not all of them.
Those in XMN are actually stored there rather than in for heavy checks, if you noticed the in date they have been there for months, those that are there actually for maintenance are the sCO 77E

Originally Posted by UA_Flyer
Happy to hear these Polaris configured 772s will be going for heavy maintenance and return to scheduled services once international traffic goes back to normal.
there are no definitely plans to return to service, someone is mistaken the 77N/U/G/M had been there for months as storage rather than doing anything, the only ones that are actually there for maintenance are the 77E, which are the GE birds

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