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Originally Posted by Steve Grayson
The -900 is still out there as dorment order.. On top of that I have found out that the only reason the T7 was not ordered for Dom Ops was the inability of SYD, BNE and MEL Dom Terminals to accept their large footprints. IATA says the T7 will take up 2.4 of their bays and they are not willing to change for us.
DJ is now looking at an infill of an 767/A330 size a/c to allow is to fly 250 ish pax on our trunk routes...
One last update from the Coffee Club is that we are ramping up to have about 140 a/c by 2015 ad onwards to 180 by 2017 
It's gonna get busy.....  |
Had the 777 order eventuated, that would have raised a number of interesting questions: have a dedicated domestic fleet (in which case buy old -200As or -300As at good prices or buy new jets)? or interchange the a/c with V, in which case the a/c would be premium heavy for domestic routes.
The 767/330 need is a quandary. I don't see DJ going to Airbus, yet Boeing can't offer much with the 767 at the end of its life and the 787-3 all but nixed.
You can get 215 pax in a single-class config in the 739ER. Are 35 more seats worth introducing a new type of a/c?