Originally Posted by
sailingfun
I never heard him say he did not like 777's. What he did say was ours had a very inefficient layout and seat count. That's been fixed.
What I have heard him say is that "the 777 doesn't know where it wants to go". It has been reconfigured several times during his tenure, and still doesn't seem to quite do what he would like. I'm not saying that he doesn't like the airplane, just that his rhetoric doesn't fill me with ANY confidence that there will be any more in our future. Frankly, I think super premium flying is extremely limited in our kind of network. If you are a jihadi airline that is tying mega cities only, equipment like the 380s make sense. Again, there is a balance that has to be struck, and a ton of super premium airframes don't make sense for us... I think we better accept the idea that the majority of DAL pilot careers will be at 330 and below flying. Of course nothing has really changed now has it?