Originally Posted by
sinca3
What if DAL isn't buying but leasing the these planes? Maybe a good deal on short term leases until something better/newer is available..787ish or 737 replacement.
In the WSJ article they said buy instead of lease...
The WSJ also gets it right, "Delta expected to purchase..."
After watching the Cam Newton debacle with ESPN last year there were plenty of jumping the gun and headlines that didn't match the content of the article. "Cam Newton took $200,000 to play at Auburn" sub headline "according to unnamed sources."
Maybe he did and maybe he didn't, but almost a year later nada. So we'll see if we purchase 100 739s or not. Something tells me we are and we leaked the story to trump SWA's ATL announcement which didn't really warrant a "trump them" effort.
For the record, it'd taken more than a scholarship for me to go to Mississippi St too.
Originally Posted by
nwaf16dude
I'm pretty sure I saw something in one of the recent flight ops messages that said we were pulling the 75ERs off of the transatlantic ops because they weren't happy with them...although it might just be because we've been canceling service to most of the cities we used it on. That frees up some of our newest 757s for transcon stuff. I'm pretty sure we'll still be flying 757 transcons long after any 737-900s start showing up.
We have relatively new 752ERs (late 1990s) and 753s (2002-2003). 33 and 16 respectively.
There are 134 752s. They go back as far as I can tell to 1984. But cycles and hours trump age and who knows how many need to go. We have parted 757s out before...
My question is, since 2000 we've parked 762s, L1011s, DC10-30s, DC10-40s, 742s, 741s, MD11s, 732s, DC91s, DC93s, DC94s, DC95s, 727s and 733s. All in all DAL + NWA had 1060 aircraft in 2000 and 727 today.
And like a cockroach after a nuclear explosion, the 88 remains. (green smile face)
But, while we can order more 737s or even take a chance on the 321 later, I don't know if I'm going to be happy until 739 new orders > domestic 752s. But one thing for sure, whether 737 or A321, both are compromised airplanes but one is more comfortable and has greater potential for better engines.
The same goes for the "DC9 replacement" which I hope is more than the 172 DC9-10s, DC9-30s, DC9-40s and DC9-50s being replaced. Plus add in there 80 732s and 733s.
Til then, it's worth it to listen but
forgive me if I'm interested in seeing what both the left hand and right hand are doing at any one time.