As 50-seaters leave DCI they will take approximately 11,000 or so seats with them. If you believe DAL really loved those 50 seaters and hated to give them up then you could say we reduced the 50 seaters by 11,000 or so seats.
But if you believe what is said to investors* then you have to believe they really wanted out of the 50 seaters. So I guess you could say DAL reduced 50 seaters by 11,000 seats and we facilitated that swap out by allowing the 76-seater seating capacity to grow by 45.8% and the overall jumbo RJ capacity to grow 29%.
Footnotes:
*RA : the 50-seat fleet reduction will be significantly accretive to our enterprise.
*EB: I don’t think customers want to fly 800, 900 miles on a 50-seater. Part of what we’re doing here is putting a better product in the market, better fuel efficiency, fewer airplanes in the air and our customers tell us they much prefer flying on mainline airplanes rather than 34-, 44-, and 50-seat airplanes.
Note: mainline > 50 seats.