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Old Mar 8, 2006 | 11:23 am
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Originally Posted by TWA Fan 1
CO currently has 54 757's (some are configured to int'l), 26 767's and 18 777's (clearly all earmarked for int'l)

So as many as 80 widebodies would be available for domestic. This compares to AA's 143 757's and 74 767's. About a third of each plane, but then again AA is the world's largest airline.

And one wonders why CO can fly so many domestic widebodies in and out of IAH and not a single one in and out of EWR (except to IAH, of course).

After all, EWR is CO's principal international gateway and one would imagine that feeder flights would benefit from greater capacity.
The widebodies are all used for international flights, there are only a a few flights between IAH and EWR that are widebodies and they are primarily aircraft rotations between IAH and EWR for international flights...

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