Boilermaker, while it may be hard to dispute that the company makes orders to grab headlines, the commercial boys are pretty good at crunching numbers. When they put in this order it was planned to use them on the LAX and South American routes. At that time oil was around 25-30 bucks a barrel, this of course has changed dramatically as you are well aware and has changed completely the economics of this aircraft. Also since the order the -600 has not really met its performance promises, while the 777 ER has exceeded its projections. Simple economics really. While I am not happy about a lot of things here, I try not to criticise what I don't fully understand, airline macro-economics being one of them. There is nothing dumber than sticking to a plan when the environment has completely changed around you. As long as the commercial boys don't tell me how to fly a plane (and they try to), I won't tell them how to sort out the airlines assets.