Sorry G1, your Jumbo Holiday to HNL is pie in the sky.
All the 744s are either
a) at their 'use by date', or perhaps that should be their 'best before' date. OR
b) fully committed elsewhere, i.e. the Newbie Nine, which are the newest three Rollers, OJS, OJT and OJU and the 6 -ERs OEE-OEJ.
Can't even cover Frankfurt with these 9 aircraft, the only ones to be left in about 18 months, once you provide for the routes SYD-LAX-JFK, BNE-LAX, SYD-SCL, SYD-JNB, SYD-DFW and vice versa, hence the mutterings about Europe is a basket case, etc. even with full loads. In fact, with only 9 744s, I don't think Santiago can be covered either. Expect a propaganda campaign soon along the lines of 'we are not making money on South America, will have to gift the route to Lan Chile, our Oneworld codeshare partner etc. etc.'
SYD-HNL would be an ideal route for an A380 though, except there is no spare capacity on that fleet either, now that deliveries have been 'deferred' until 2020 or whenever.
Some 787-9s to plug the gaps? Maybe. Go hard Simon. Make your case to the Leprechaun.
Last edited by Captain Gidday; 14th Aug 2012 at 11:17.