Stubby wrote:

Bob Noel wrote:

In article xdcrf.15668$LB5.8651@fed1read04, wrote:


I have serious doubt that the U.S. airlines will ever retrofit their
legacy glass aircraft. Boeing wants a king's ransom to do that. The
757/767 fleet manager at American said, "No way, it would cost as
over $100 million."



what am I missing here... American's 757/767 fleet has what kind of
glass? Is the architecture so tightly integrated that processors and
software
can't be upgraded (even as part of tech refresh)? Is there additional
equipment that needs to be added? How many aircraft?

American's fleet is capable of RNP-2, isn't it? If not, then they should
be looking at some upgrade cost anyway.

(btw - $100 million? feh - you don't want to know the cost to upgrade
the USAF fleet...)

I read USAF spends $700M per year painting aircraft.

They're not in Chapter 11 nor anywhere near it. ;-)