Being that my information was from a co-worker and not an official company press release it could very well be that CO bought the 752 instead or bought a mixture of 752 and 753. I have this feeling with the success CO is having with some of the European destinations that the 753 could be making those trips soon. If nothing else, like you said this could free up domestic 752 usage.

Thanks PL. I attempted to correct the image and you saw what I came up with. You did a much better job of bringing out the Fall colors.

I was told yesterday that Continental Airlines closed a deal for all of ATA 753’s. It seems that CO had applied for about 15 new destinations in Europe with the expectation of getting only a few approved. Much to their suprise they got them all approved. Quickly they realized they didn’t have the 757 fleet to cover all the new destinations so this ATA deal was a real sweet deal to come across. I guess quite a few of the new destinations are dependant upon having the new winglets installed.

Looks like you folks in Europe will be getting quite a few sightings of CO 757’s starting in ’05.

I flew a C172 for the first time in about 4 years last week. Everything looked real good until the last few feet. 🙂 Not bad, just not good. Of course your perspective is even more off as you are use to looking down from 3 stories up. 😀