Q400s reentering the fleet
Aug 8, 2019, 1:34 pm
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Q400s reentering the fleet
For all of those Q400 lovers, AS are bringing back three that had already left the fleet. Presumably to allow for trickle up to deal with delayed MAX9s
Alaska plans return of turboprops as Boeing 737 Max jet deliveries delayed
https://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/...oeing-737.html
Alaska plans return of turboprops as Boeing 737 Max jet deliveries delayed
https://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/...oeing-737.html
Aug 8, 2019, 2:51 pm
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Alaska also revealed that the airline also has called "cancelable purchase commitments" for 30 Airbus A320neo deliveries from 2023 through 2025.
Aug 8, 2019, 3:25 pm
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Those 30 Airbus have been around since the VX days. Original first delivery was in 2020, up until the latest update the revised first delivery was 2022. Now it is 2023 so I am not sure we will ever see those busses in AS color.
Aug 9, 2019, 2:51 am
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http://investor.alaskaair.com/sec-filings/sec-filing/10-q/0000766421-19-000042
Aug 9, 2019, 11:26 am
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For all of those Q400 lovers, AS are bringing back three that had already left the fleet. Presumably to allow for trickle up to deal with delayed MAX9s
Alaska plans return of turboprops as Boeing 737 Max jet deliveries delayed
https://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/...oeing-737.html
Alaska plans return of turboprops as Boeing 737 Max jet deliveries delayed
https://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/...oeing-737.html
are they going to remove the “proudly” from their “proudly all Boeing” stickers?
Aug 9, 2019, 11:35 am
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Aug 9, 2019, 12:09 pm
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For all of those Q400 lovers, AS are bringing back three that had already left the fleet. Presumably to allow for trickle up to deal with delayed MAX9s
Alaska plans return of turboprops as Boeing 737 Max jet deliveries delayed
https://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/...oeing-737.html
Alaska plans return of turboprops as Boeing 737 Max jet deliveries delayed
https://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/...oeing-737.html
Aug 9, 2019, 12:19 pm
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Well to be fair, Proudly all Boeing was reference to the Alaska Airlines mainline fleet as opposed to Horizon (which still says Alaska Airlines operated by Horizon). That being said, with the Airbus fleet being around, a little "false" advertisement. Right now, not so proud of Boeing.
Aug 9, 2019, 12:30 pm
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Nothing on the unofficial fleet page yet.
But the Boeings are still all Boeing.
Well to be fair, Proudly all Boeing was reference to the Alaska Airlines mainline fleet as opposed to Horizon (which still says Alaska Airlines operated by Horizon). That being said, with the Airbus fleet being around, a little "false" advertisement. Right now, not so proud of Boeing.
Aug 9, 2019, 1:21 pm
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Well to be fair, Proudly all Boeing was reference to the Alaska Airlines mainline fleet as opposed to Horizon (which still says Alaska Airlines operated by Horizon). That being said, with the Airbus fleet being around, a little "false" advertisement. Right now, not so proud of Boeing.
Aug 9, 2019, 1:41 pm
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Will be another year of growing capacity not by total aircraft but adding seats into reconfigured planes. So would not expect many/any new routes unless there are cuts elsewhere to make them possible.
Aug 9, 2019, 3:21 pm
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Finance report link below. Thre only mention for the A319 was a repeT of the conference call stating that three A319/320 aircraft were being returned this year
0000766421-19-000042 | 10-Q | Alaska Air Group Inc
0000766421-19-000042 | 10-Q | Alaska Air Group Inc
Aug 9, 2019, 4:58 pm
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At which point either Boeing is delivering 737Max planes to AS because they've entered back into service or AS is going to extend leases, probably. I think there's a non-zero chance they decide to go with Airbus/mixed fleet if this MAX nonsense drags out longer.