Ishky15 From United States of America, joined May 2000, 717 posts, RR: 14 Posted (12 years 8 months 4 weeks 1 day 4 hours ago) and read 730 times:
Many people have frequently stressed the fact that CO has a "widebody shortage". So in my free time, I thought up about an order that would be good for them. Note: This is only a THOUGHT
I believe that they should excercise their remaining nine 777 orders as well as place another firm order for 10 more. Seven of these would be Long Range 200s, the rest would be the normal type they have in their fleet now.
They would be used for the following routes:
Qantas777 From United States of America, joined Aug 2000, 484 posts, RR: 1 Reply 1, posted (12 years 8 months 4 weeks 1 day 3 hours ago) and read 678 times:
why not just order all LR's? why doesnt CO have all LR's to begin with?
Sammyk From United States of America, joined Oct 1999, 1686 posts, RR: 0 Reply 2, posted (12 years 8 months 4 weeks 1 day 2 hours ago) and read 662 times:
Why would they need ALL LRs? The range is not always necessary, and the reason they don't have any to begin with is because the LR's were just launched this year.
I thought there was rumor that CO would order 5 firm 10 options of LRs soon?