Second day of Airbus 330 school

What's wrong with the 767-400? Other than the somewhat limited range, I'm surprised it didn't sell more. I heard Delta loves the 757-300 because of it's ability to make money. Seems like the 767-400 would be on par to some extent. Also seems like a good airplane for certain routes that could do well with a lot of first class seats, which seems to be what they've been up to with it.
 
787-9 seems to make a great deal of sense. I think it will be a pretty good airplane when the dust settles.
 
Dan208B said:
What's wrong with the 767-400? Other than the somewhat limited range, I'm surprised it didn't sell more. I heard Delta loves the 757-300 because of it's ability to make money. Seems like the 767-400 would be on par to some extent. Also seems like a good airplane for certain routes that could do well with a lot of first class seats, which seems to be what they've been up to with it.
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According to the bean counters, the two most profitable aircraft are the 757-300 and the Big Buses.

The -400? No clue. Limited range. I'm making crap up here because I really don't know, but when the company bought the -400's, they were replacements for the domestic L1011's bouncing between high volume markets in Florida. Hell, they weren't even strung for HF or SATCOM at first so you really couldn't do a lot with them besides domestic flying.

Then the company poached a guy from CAL that had the attitude that big planes only make money when they fly far places, which makes sense. The 777's shouldn't be doing ATL MCO turns and ER's shouldn't be doing ATL to JAX. So, again I think, the -400's once they hit the international markets, it just didn't perform as well as the ER's and especially not the Airbii.
 
Derg said:
According to the bean counters, the two most profitable aircraft are the 757-300 and the Big Buses.

The -400? No clue. Limited range. I'm making crap up here because I really don't know, but when the company bought the -400's, they were replacements for the domestic L1011's bouncing between high volume markets in Florida. Hell, they weren't even strung for HF or SATCOM at first so you really couldn't do a lot with them besides domestic flying.

Then the company poached a guy from CAL that had the attitude that big planes only make money when they fly far places, which makes sense. The 777's shouldn't be doing ATL MCO turns and ER's shouldn't be doing ATL to JAX. So, again I think, the -400's once they hit the international markets, it just didn't perform as well as the ER's and especially not the Airbii.
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That makes a lot of sense. I rode on them twice to London, and with the extra Business Elite seats and the shorter flights out of the east coast and northern midwest, it seems like a decent airplane for that trip without too many weight issues. Especially with the 777s and Airbii if you can keep the airplane busy on routes with $15k business seats and lots of money-making cargo vs. ATL MCO, just seems like a better deal. 757-300 seems pretty optimal for filling in those domestic gaps.
 
Dan208B said:
What's wrong with the 767-400? Other than the somewhat limited range, I'm surprised it didn't sell more. I heard Delta loves the 757-300 because of it's ability to make money. Seems like the 767-400 would be on par to some extent. Also seems like a good airplane for certain routes that could do well with a lot of first class seats, which seems to be what they've been up to with it.
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I hate those things and their weight restrictions out of MUC.

Seen them leave my mom behind many times even though there were 10-15 seats open.
 
Screaming_Emu said:
I hate those things and their weight restrictions out of MUC.

Seen them leave my mom behind many times even though there were 10-15 seats open.
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Now if there's space left in the cargo bins and revenue passengers left behind, that's money down the drain.
 
Moneymakers for DL are the 757-300, A330, and 747. Company really likes the A330, which is why the purchased more. They have a coronary if a A330 is out of service for an extended period of time for maintenance.
 
H46Bubba said:
Moneymakers for DL are the 757-300, A330, and 747. Company really likes the A330, which is why the purchased more. They have a coronary if a A330 is out of service for an extended period of time for maintenance.
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While the 753's are still quite new. They only have 20+ do they have something in mind as a replacement? A321/900ER's can't come close.
 
@skyrunner1500

The 330s have the Honeywell system and the 319/320's have the Thalus system.

They want to go to the Thalus system once some "memory issues" are solved and all of the new deliveries will have the improved Thalus.
 
Thales it is... The 330/340 are so nice to fly, life in the cockpit is great, it's roomy, very quiet, great view, heating is very efficient.
 
Hey !! Am still reading it; I'm switching between Airbus lit and yours. Loving it so far and can't thank you enough for that, very cool !!
 
I told the instructor "I'm starting to find the MCDU somewhat intuitive in its own backwards ways" and she said "You've for kool aid on your lanyard"
 
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