Originally Posted by
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20 new airplanes minus how many 9s and 757s?
Its been posted over and over again what the companies fleet plan is and how many aircraft they plan on having in 3 more years. There are still almost enough MD-90's to enter the fleet this year to offset the nines. The 20 number I posted was new aircraft only. If the company purchases the 30 additional aircraft then in 3 years we will have a net fleet increase approaching or exceeding 100 aircraft. That means 218 new aircraft plus the MD90's. There will be a lot of retirements as planned. In the past however Delta has almost always slowed retirement from their forecast so that could mean a even greater gain.