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Old 05-24-2013 | 09:41 AM
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Originally Posted by sailingfun
We are gambling on the price of oil pure and simple. If oil goes to 200 a barrel Delta has problems. If it stays around 100 a barrel we come out looking very smart.
More so on the 747-400 rumor but even that is only 6-12 planes so either way wouldn't be a game changer. The MAX/NEO order book hysteria just doesn't pan out. At 200+ oil you will have demand destruction and a crappy economy anyway. You may want some bleedless test flight tech if thats the case, but I doubt you'd want to be sitting on 800 of them at those prices.

We will get them, and the 787/350 stuff too. But there is no need, and no advantage, whatsoever, to be first in line for any of it. Its just not that miraculous and neither are game changers of any kind.