Does anybody really believe we are going to receive these aircraft in the next couple of years (20 A330, 15 A320) DREAM ON. Airbus can't even specify a delivery date, we will get the ex-MEA 330s (maybe) and that will be it. This is GF where we forever dream.

skywaytoheaven
Maybe there is a reason why the 20 A330s and 15 A320s are not included in Flight International's Airline census....because they are not there perhaps, or is it that Flight made a mistake....oh I know, they didn't read the GDN ;)
Talk is cheap as they say.

Good luck all

I realise the integrity of the GDN (or lack thereof). In this case, a press release of the Crown Prince's visit to the Seattle facility and subsequent order of these aircrafts should not be entirely discounted.
Maybe Boeings' own media will make the news more credible.

http://www.boeing.com/news/releases/...80903c_nr.html

too little too late, sal. 500 pilots at least will have left before the 787s surface.
it will have more to do with:

deteriorating conditions (hr, staff travel-new buildings same crap, housing-insufficient and/or substandard),
deteriorating morale (lies, lies and more lies),
deteriorating aircraft (cabin and structure),
deteriorating health and mental well being of pilots (unresettable body clocks),
deteriorating management practices (illegal and immoral increases of fdp's),
deteriorating communication (we pay you, you shut up and work)

If EK's anything to go by - none.