They might just need time to update their booking system - there's no way they're not selling this flight as a Kangaroo Route.

The other thing to note is that airlines rarely follow the manufacturer's standard configuration, so the real CASM saving that can be spread across the seats is probably even less.

You do raise a very valid point in that if their future strategy is revolved around the 789s as a 330 replacement they will need to have a low J (~28-30) configuration as the market is just not there for J and W for the Asian market except a handful of destinations like HKG and HND which can add ...

Sorry I misread - my bad! It's likely that 3-4 787s would be required for the daily (presuming it's daily at this stage) for CDG-PER-BNE-LAX rotation as the routing/block time is much longer than the current BNE-LAX rotation which only require 2 aircrafts.It's also likely that more airc...

They'll probably retire the oldest of the non-ER 744s first (possibly the recently refurbished ones with F that are currently used for charters) before retiring the 744 ERs