It looks like the rumorerd 787 order cancellations will occur soon. As far back as early 2007 NWA management had expressed doubts about the aircraft because of the weight and range issue. It can not fly several of the routes NWA purchased it for and has even greater issues out of ATL. The last lounge brief where this was discussed mentioned that the -9 is the aircraft they really want. The bad news is the loss of firm orders for the combined airline. The good news is that it looks like they will be replaced with 777 orders. It will be interesting to see what the mix of 787's if any and 777 orders ends up as. It will also be interesting to see how many 787-900 orders we place. Lets hope its a bunch!


Dec 1 (Reuters) - Delta Air Lines Inc, which bought Northwest
Airlines Corp in October, plans to seek significant changes
to aircraft orders both carriers had placed individually with
Boeing Co, The Wall Street Journal said.

Delta is likely to scale back a Northwest order for Boeing's
new, but delayed, 787 Dreamliner, and ask the manufacturer to
expand a Delta order for the 777-200LR aircraft, the
newspaper said, citing people familiar with Delta's plans.

The 777-200LR is a long-range aircraft that carries at least
50 more passengers and would better enable the combined
carrier to continue pursuing Delta's strategy to shift a
greater percentage of its flights to long overseas routes,
the paper said.