Good grief you'd think they'd just ordered a Russian design going by the reaction of some. They currently operate a mixed bag of old and new A320s and A321s, some second hand, some not, some leased, some not, some with sharklets, some not. Any Boeing order is a multi million pound investment so I think it's safe to assume a good deal has been offered, and the numbers tally with where Monarch think they need to be.
This is the company that helped introduce the Boeing 757 and survived the transition from Boeing 737s to Airbus. When EZY rolled the whole fleet over from Boeing to Airbus, Joe Public barely noticed as a flying narrow body cabin is much of a muchness to the majority of muggles, er I mean people.
The future will be a standardised fleet with a new generation and highly capable narrow body. I wish them well.
FYI if anyone from Monarch is reading this, the B737 photograph on the inside back page of the inflight mag is actually a BAC One Eleven. D'ooooh!
Last edited by Skipness One Echo; 2nd Jul 2014 at 21:08.