Originally Posted by
TWA Fan 1
When I wrote "earliest retirement" what I meant is that these ships will be retired first. That timeline will be, as you write, once the 787's start being delivered, so it will take some time, probably about a decade till the last 767 is gone. At that point all the overseas flights on CO will be in 31" seat pitch unless management has a change of heart regarding Y or PE.
There's no indication that the 787 will be 31" pitch.
Why should they be, anyways? CO's 767s are delivered after their 757s and 777s. So, one can actually argue that CO has been
increasing pitch for its longhaul aircrafts.
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Let me add some dates:
1st 752, N58101 was delivered 5/12/94 31" pitch
1st 772, N78001 was delivered 9/28/98 31" pitch
1st 764, N66051 was delivered 8/30/00 32" pitch
1st 762, N76151 was delivered 11/9/00 32" pitch
See the trend?
CO should hire me to spin this. They have been adding pitch!