i really dont get why airlines does this.
Posted by LudwigTails@reddit | aviation | View on Reddit | 9 comments
After I watch many Airline buying news. I have gone over my boiling point because i really dont get why airline does this.
Big airlines would always find themselves to have either mostly Airbus or Boeing planes and then the minority fleet being the same. But its every time I often found airlines to be flying majority of Airbus but then its ALWAYS a B787 over a full Airbus fleet and constantly dropping or avoiding A330(neo)s. Or its something the rounds of A350s and B787 pairing along with some sort of short haul aircraft.
Don't Airbus offer cockpit combability? Starlux make uses of it and they seem to go well. I can never understand why airline just refuses to get the A330neo when by operating it. Surely in the long term it'd be cheaper to fly that over the B787... I really like the A330 family and its just sad the amount of B787 that are replacing A330ceos...
flying_wrenches@reddit
Only with the 320 line do you have complete cockpit compatibility.
The 350 and 330 are different enough that you are re doing a genfam
LudwigTails@reddit (OP)
no? i thought airbus offers that across all their aircrafts not just the A320 family??
flying_wrenches@reddit
The fleets are unique enough, iirc it’s 320 family, 330 and 50, and 340 and 80. But don’t quote me on that.
737900ER@reddit
Aren't there some regulators (and airlines they regulate) that pool then?
praetor450@reddit
Airlines will buy the airplane that fits their needs after doing careful analysis of their operations and any future plans.
Cockpit compatibility might be a factor, but certainly won’t be the only decking factor. There are plenty of factors that they consider to ensure the airplane will provide them what they want.
Some airlines do try to keep fleet commonality, but diversity can also provide an advantage to some.
From my understanding the 330neo doesn’t provide much in terms of benefits compared to the 330ceo for certain airlines, so they don’t go that route.
Vollkorntoastbrot@reddit
Im assuming this is partially about Lufthansa and their recent order of 10 B787 and A350 each.
Their long term strategy didnt include the 787 for a while (the plan was 777x and a350) I'm assuming that at some point they either noticed that they'd also want a smaller widebody and or got a rather good deal on the 787s due to the 777x delay (each year of the delay has cost the airline around 500 million roughly)
That said the Lufthansa long haul fleet strategy is about as messy as it gets.
For big airlines it can make sense to mix fleets, the trend 1000 and 737max are great examples of why at some point it's good to diversify your fleet.
Cockpit communality is great but there are lots of other factors going into the decision to buy a certain plane, starlux is a rather small airline in comparison.
The recent Lufthansa group order for 100 737max aircraft probably developed out of getting a rather good deal due to 777x delays, probably a earlier delivery date compared to a320 neos and having a diverse narrow body fleet would somewhat protect Thier medium and short haul operations from major disruptions like groundings or stuff like the pw1100g issues. Afaik they are also planned mostly for Eurowings.
Speedbird14@reddit
This is a bizzare thread. If you are buying a Toyota Highlander, you can't ask the dealer to give you the same interior as the Honda Pilot. If you want a Honda Pilot, you buy one. It's the same thing for planes. Their systems architecture and philosophies are fundamentally different.
Educational-Coat-750@reddit
What
dcl415@reddit
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